A recent article discusses how AI may reduce certain types of intelligence but can enhance wisdom by prompting users to ask better questions.

There's no evidence Socrates said "when the debate is lost, slander becomes the tool of the loser," nor even any indication the quote existed before 2008.

Socrates questioned what was to be gained by escaping. Life itself is not ultimately valuable – surely, he says, it is a good and just life that we ultimately value.

Socrates used to say that he knew nothing other than the fact of his own ignorance. Despite some of her grander pronouncements, Callard invites us to think alongside her.

Socrates was fearless in examining life, because he believed that “ an unexamined life is not worth living. ” In 399 BC Socrates was sentenced to death for not believing in the gods of the state.

Xenophon’s Socrates, too, thinks that lust for a beautiful boy is an inferior form of love, but his reasoning is merely pragmatic: “For, to my way of thinking, the man whose attention is ...

Socrates claimed to be enthralled by Alcibiades’ good looks and charisma, and (as recounted in Plato’s dialogue Symposium) he saved his life at the Battle of Potidaea in 432 BC.

‘Socrates’: Theater Review Michael Stuhlbarg plays the title role of the enduringly influential Greek philosopher in 'Socrates,' a world-premiere play by actor Tim Blake Nelson.