Stories
Someone I love is suffering
Someone I love is suffering, wrote a friend. What can philosophy tell me about my responsibilities to help them?
Plato
Later, in the marketplaces and harbours of the ancient world, in temples and sacred groves, in Athens and Sicily, in Megara and Italy, they would whisper the stories to each other.
Socrates
He was the son of a stonemason and a midwife. Neither rich nor poor, neither aristocratic nor a peasant … every year, thousands of boys like him were born to thousands of parents in Athens, and every single one of them would live their ordinary lives and die their ordinary deaths,