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Explainer: Socrates and the life worth living

Socrates was notoriously annoying. He was likened to a gadfly buzzing around while one is trying to sleep. The Oracle of Delphi declared him the wisest of all human beings. His life and death would go on to shape the history of Western thought.

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What is love? In pop culture, love is often depicted as a willingness to sacrifice, but ancient philosophers took a different view

Woven through Thor: Love and Thunder, Taika Waititi’s latest contribution to the Marvel Cinematic Universe, is a sentimental and age-old commentary on mortality and love.

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Electoral victory cannot legitimise everything that the government does, says former SC judge Chelameswar

“If people do not stand up and fight for their lives and liberties, no document, no Constitution can save their lives and liberties”

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Singapore executions under scrutiny as more hanged for drugs

Questions being asked over speed of executions, legal representation, and the ethnicities of the condemned.

Al Jazeera

Socrates and Plato matter far too much to be left just to Britain’s elite

My favourite subject at school was Philosophy. I loved it because it showed me that many of the questions I lazily pondered at night — such as why we should do right over wrong, and how we know who we are — have been vigorously debated for thousands of years.…

Evening Standard

Slippery Slope Arguments in History: Socrates

From the Phaedrus dialogue: Socrates…. Where is deception most likely to occur—regarding things that differ much or things that differ little from one another? Phaedrus. Regarding those that differ little. Socrates. At any rate, you are more likely to escape detection, as you shift from one thing to its opposite,…

Reason

Cancelling Socrates review – Howard Brenton interrogates democracy in a rich play of ideas

Fine acting and lively dialogue save this philosophical play from feeling static as it applies Athenian ideals to modern dilemmas

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Cancelling Socrates: how the great philosopher sealed his fate with comedy

Playwright Howard Brenton asks why ancient Athens turned on its famous citizen, and how such an uncompromising free-thinker might fare in our own ‘age of rage’

The Guardian - UK

Whataboutism: what it is and why it's such a popular tactic in arguments

Whataboutism is an argumentative tactic where a person or group responds to an accusation or difficult question by deflection. Instead of addressing the point made, they counter it with “but what about X?”.

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