How Plato Turned Socrates’ Death Into a Blueprint for True Learning

On a 2023 school trip to Athens, philosophy students from the University of Dallas re-enact the death of Socrates at the traditional site of his prison.

The Academy became the model for what a real university should be: a place of honest inquiry, moral formation, and resistance to every ideology, as thinkers from antiquity to Newman have affirmed.

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