Nelson admits researching Socrates for the play changed how he thinks — and opened him up to how Socrates’ philosophies parallel the ways democracy works and doesn’t work today.

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Almost 2,500 years after his death, Socrates continues to fascinate. The Greek thinker is seen, by some, as the father of philosophy, a martyr for ...

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In Plato’s “Gorgias” (ca. 380 B.C.), Callicles, a young Sophist, predicts that if Socrates does not learn to argue, he will be unable to defend himself in court. Rhetoric, Callicles ...

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Candles glow from recesses in the walls of this elegant, clean-lined set — a classically contemplative monument to democracy, and the shell for Mr. Nelson’s memorial to Socrates.