The Death of Socrates (detail, 1787), Jacques-Louis David - Getty Philosophers are constitutively irritating: this is both their great power and their greatest weakness. Imagine the kind of person ...
Socrates, an Athenian philosopher, pioneered the Socratic method of questioning to challenge assumptions about truth and ...
Review of Open Socrates: The Case for a Philosophical Life. By Agnes Callard. W.W. Norton & Company. 405 pp. $35. Many know that Socrates declared that “the unexamined life is not worth living.” And ...
Appears in exhibition catalog as entry no. [not numbered] (Sale info: $7.50). "Designer and engraver; born at Paris, 1775. The death of Socrates, after David, old impression. $7.50." [P. 22.] ...