Socrates
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Victor Nuovo: The trial and death of Socrates
In 399 BCE a judicial assembly of the city of Athens found Socrates guilty of impiety and corrupting the youth, and it sentenced him to death.
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Victor Nuovo: The Socratic Revolution
Why is Socrates so important? Socrates wrote nothing, so we can’t search a body of writing for answers. And the fact that he was written up by a…
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Victor Nuovo: Death and immortality
Socrates imagined that death is one of two things: Either it is extinction, or the release of the soul from the body and its migration to another place.
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Victor Nuovo: Look to our great moral teachers
It is a curious fact that the two greatest moral teachers of the Western intellectual tradition — Socrates of Athens (470–399 BCE) and Jesus of Nazareth (4 BCE–30…