Socrates’ Answer to the Prisoner’s Dilemma

Exploring how the father of philosophy would react to a modern moral quandary

The zeitgeist of popular culture has grown to accommodate a number of psychological terms since the time of Sigmund Freud. American universities have helped contribute to this by sponsoring experiments to test theories about the inner workings of the human consciousness. In 1950, the prisoner’s dilemma was first postulated as an allegory for observing h…