Socrates has been dead about 2,500 years. Why should anyone care what he thought about anything? Because Socrates was one of the greatest and most important philosophers who ever lived. He charted the course of Western philosophy that served as part of the foundation of Western civilization--the other part being the Judeo-Christian religious tradition. Socrates was the teacher of Plato, who was the teacher of Aristotle, so Socrates was one of the...