Socrates was famously so annoying that an Athenian ... There is never a “good” time to ask about the deeper meaning of why we’re here, or what the meaning of life, love and death might ...

Socrates was born in 469 BC. His father was a stonemason and his mother was a midwife, a profession he would later use to characterize himself, since he would later describe himself as a midwife ...

In “Open Socrates,” the scholar Agnes Callard argues that the ancient Greek philosopher offers a blueprint for an ethical life.