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Socrates: Virtue is Knowledge

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 ...

Helen London

"The Death of Socrates," painting by Jacques-Louis David.