Tell the truth at all times, even under the worst circumstances. This is one of the philosophies of Diogenes of Sinope, a Greek philosopher. Truth and cynicism do not always go hand in hand. Because of this, Diogenes remained an interesting philosopher with a unique look on life. If you’re into cynicism or are at ...
One evening in June 399 B.C., an elderly man in his seventies named Socrates was languishing in an Athens jail and was about to be executed. He was ragged in dress, with messy hair and bare feet, yet he appeared calm. After saying farewell to his family, he chatted animatedly with friends, seemingly oblivious to ...
The “refined” nobles of Athens often looked down upon Socrates. He did not dress up like them; he wore no footwear; he wasn’t wasteful or extravagant when it came to food and he never accepted money from his disciples. One day, a wealthy man by the name of Antiphon came across Socrates. He looked down ...
Modern society has been established on democratic ideals where every person has a say in the government through a vote that determines the ruling party. The idea of Western democracy comes from ancient Greek democracy practiced in the times of Socrates. However, Socrates wasn’t much of a fan. In fact, one could argue that he ...
Ask anyone who knows about Socrates and they will tell you about his most endearing and at the same time his most scary quality — the ability to ask questions using his Socratic Method; asking the most thought-provoking truth-revealing questions. These are the type of questions that would make the person think deeply about the ...
It was the great Roman philosopher Cicero who popularized the parable behind the sword of Damocles through his book Tusculan Disputations. The story has its origins in the palace of Dionysius, the tyrannical king who reigned over Syracuse between the fourth and fifth centuries B.C. There was no doubt in the fact that Dionysius wielded ...
The Herculaneum Papyri is a group of carbonized texts that contains the works of Greek philosophers like Philodemus of Gadara. The texts were carbonized due to the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in Campania, Italy, in A.D. 79. Scientists now plan on using light beams far brighter than the sun to decipher the elusive contents of ...
Plato was a Greek philosopher from Athens, the most famous student of Socrates, and the teacher of Aristotle. He was born in Collytus in Attica in 427 B.C. He was the son of an aristocratic father, Ariston, and his mother was Perictione. His father was descended from the ancient Athenian king Kodros (Codrus), and his mother ...
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