Did Socrates' anti-democratic teaching hand out knives to madmen like Alcibiades and Critias? Should Socrates have taken more responsibility for the effect of his words? Read more...
A.C. Grayling on James Miller's book about how philosophers have lived. A different set of philosophers' lives might have produced more optimistic conclusions. Read more...
Have philosophers lived well? Mostly not. What does that show? That living the examined life is harder and less potentially rewarding for most than it was for Socrates? Sarah Bakewell, author of a recent book about Montaigne, examines Examined Lives. Read more...