Actually, Netanyahu would do well to read Plato, to learn about democracy and the rule of law, and to stand trial and accept ...

In the year 399 BC, seventy years after he was born, Socrates was brought before the Athenian court on charges of impiety and corrupting the city's youth. His belief that the gods must be good or ...

In 399 BCE, Athens put one of its greatest thinkers, Socrates, on trial. The charges? Corrupting the youth and disrespecting the gods. The punishment? Death by drinking poison. But what if Socrates’ ...

After Socrates had been found guilty of impiety ... Led away to the city's prison house, his trial and last days became the subject of Plato's 'Crito & Phaedo'. Visited by many people, he faced ...

Take Euthyphro, for example, one of Socrates’ principal interlocutors. Euthyphro is so sure that he knows the difference between right and wrong that he is bringing his own father to trial.