There are few works as unsettling as “The Republic.” Not because of its complexity or reputation but because it refuses to let us hide from the hardest questions: What is justice? Is it even possible?

Once you have accepted that inquiry demands the presence of an interlocutor, you may wonder what exactly to inquire about.

With an inventory accounting method, such as last-in, first-out (LIFO), you can do just that. Below, we’ll dive deeper into LIFO method to help you decide if it makes sense for your small business.

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 ...

Callard is a University of Chicago moral philosopher with a madcap streak, and a perpetually controversial figure for making ...

You may have heard of the Socratic method, which indicates that the student should be doing 70% of the work, of the expression and communication, and the teacher should be doing 30%. We often see ...

The public philosopher on open relationships, free speech and why protests fail. By Pippa Bailey In the acknowledgements at the end of her new book, Open Socrates, the philosopher Agnes Callard writes ...

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Plato's accounts of the last days of Socrates in which he kept doing philosophy right up to the point of his execution by hemlock. Show more Melvyn Bragg and guests ...

The practice is known as "The Spaghetti Method," and it involves mixing something into your spaghetti sauce that should absolutely never be eaten. So what is The Spaghetti Method and why is it ...