After Socrates had been found guilty of impiety and corrupting the morals of the city's youth, he was next invited to propose a suitable punishment. This was a legal tradition in Athens and an ...

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 ...

The idea can be traced back to sources such as Plato’s Republic, in which Socrates extolls the virtues ... of the modern ...