Socrates: Congratulations, Phaedrus, on your recent graduation. Phaedrus: Please don’t mention it, Socrates. Socrates: Now that you are a physician, what are you going to do? Phaedrus: I am applying ...

Dialogue has always been at the core of human culture and understanding. Across ages and societies, it’s been around campfires, at dinner tables, or in the roundtable discussions of philosophers and ...

I had a dream that Socrates came to Boulder and was walking along the creek path near City Hall. Upon seeing some city employees lost in thought on a park bench, Socrates tried to engage them in ...

Some of us think ourselves virtuous because we work hard, take care of our children and manage to get through most days without committing major mistakes. But does that make us virtuous? If so, are ...

Socrates: What is the exact time? Crito: The dawn is breaking. Socrates: What is your reason for such an early entrance. Crito: There has been another mass shooting in the agora. Socrates: My thoughts ...

When we talk about education, and about tutoring in particular, we often speak of the Socratic method. Often what we mean when we refer to that method is simply something like a question-and-answer ...