Callard makes the case that Socrates was not just a gadfly who badgered people with questions, but rather someone who lived by a specific set of values and gave us tools for finding answers to ...

Mahama doesn’t need only the Appiah Stadiums of this world. He also needs the Manassehs, the metaphorical gadfly Socrates referred to in the “Apology of Socrates.” In the words of the ...

Shelley was a Socrates lover and produced an excellent translation of the Symposium while on the run in Italy with young Mary Godwin. Every modern philosopher from Kant to Foucault read Plato’s ...

and gadfly he is in the league of Socrates and Voltaire. Gaffe (Noun) Meaning: an unintentional act or remark causing embarrassment to its originator; a blunder Example: Only then, having realised ...