The Academy became the model for what a real university should be: a place of honest inquiry, moral formation, and resistance to every ideology, as thinkers from antiquity to Newman have affirmed. On ...

Today, reading and writing are considered essential to function in modern society, but more than 2,400 years ago in Ancient Greece, the legendary philosopher Socrates was not a fan. Famous for never ...

Socrates, one of the greatest philosophers of ancient Greece, profoundly shaped the way humans think about life, ethics, and self-awareness. His teachings, preserved through the writings of his ...

Artificial intelligence is transforming “the way we think about the world, the way that we communicate [and] our political culture in a democracy,” Greece’s former prime minister George Papandreou ...

LISBON, July 3 (Reuters) - Portuguese former Prime Minister Jose Socrates appeared before a court on Thursday on the first day of a long-delayed trial in which he faces charges of corruption that were ...

Agnes Callard doesn’t only study and teach philosophy—she lives it. Whether debating a friend over dinner, leading a late-night discussion in Hyde Park, or questioning her own beliefs in print, she ...

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In “Open Socrates,” the scholar Agnes Callard argues that the ancient Greek philosopher offers a blueprint for an ethical life. By Jennifer Szalai When you purchase an independently reviewed book ...

During a time when many are complaining about divisiveness in politics and in society, it seems counterintuitive for a book to make the case that we need to argue more. But in “Open Socrates: The Case ...

In this Microsoft SQL Server and JDBC tutorial, you'll learn how to connect to a Microsoft SQL Server in Java using JDBC. The steps are relatively straightforward: Each database is different, so ...

Every product was carefully curated by an Esquire editor. We may earn a commission from these links. Here’s how we test products and why you should trust us. The year is 79 B.C.E. Three centuries have ...