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Plato's elite school in Athens, compared by Jiang to Harvard or Oxford as a training ground for powerful students.
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Academy
Plato's elite school in Athens, compared by Jiang to Harvard or Oxford as a training ground for powerful students.
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Jiang argues that Aristotle was a plausible middleman for Philip's dealings with Athenian aristocrats because Aristotle spent 20 years at the Academy, where elite Athenians studied.
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After Socrates' death, Plato devoted his life to restoring and redeeming Socrates' reputation.
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The Academy and Aristotle are presented as institutional channels that packaged, promoted, and spread Plato's influence through elite education and Greek culture.
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"...Athenian aristocrats? Aristotle. Right? Why? Because remember, Aristotle was at the academy for 20 years. The academy in Athens at that time is like..."
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"...Aristotle started a new school in Athens in competition with the academy called the Lyceum. Okay? So what is the purpose of the Lyceum?..."
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"...Okay, does that make sense? And third of all, was his academy, okay? And the academy in Athens at that time, it's like Harvard,..."
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"...he was 40 years old, he founded a school called the Academy, okay? Which was inspired by the vision of Socrates. As a philosopher..."
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Aristotle is not treated here as the solitary genius behind Western reason.
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A source-grounded reading of the lecture's central turn: Socrates attacks democracy by exposing the weakness of language and reason, then Plato rescues Socrates by turning the cave into a martyr story, a Christian universe,...
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