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Socrates attracted wealthy anti-democratic aristocrats because he taught them mental or linguistic kung fu for beating commoners who thought they were equals.
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Socrates attracted wealthy anti-democratic aristocrats because he taught them mental or linguistic kung fu for beating commoners who thought they were equals.
Jiang argues that Plato's anti-democracy helped preserve his influence because kings ruled most of human history and found anti-democratic thought useful.
"this is not a great play okay this is not a famous play of Greece but it tells you what Athenians thought of Socrates..."
"They're just not. But Plato, anyone can read Plato and enjoy Plato, okay? So his readability, the originality of his writing is one really..."
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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