Socrates was born in 469 BC. His father was a stonemason and his mother was a midwife, a profession he would later use to characterize himself, since he would later describe himself as a midwife ...

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 ...

Contractors give a spring cleaning to Robert Aitken's 1935 statue of Socrates, near the National Archives, in 2017. (Bill O'Leary/The Washington Post) Philosopher Agnes Callard revels in ...