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Aristophanes

In Jiang's summary of The Clouds, the thinkery teaches reason, logic, and truth as tools for manipulating juries and escaping debts.

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The Cave That Makes Socrates A Martyr

2024-10-22, day precision · Civilization #10: The Trial of Socrates and Plato's Allegory of the Cave

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"famous satirist in Athens and he made fun of all the very famous individuals of Athens including Pericles who as we said was the..."

The Cave That Makes Socrates A Martyr

2024-10-22, day precision · Civilization #10: The Trial of Socrates and Plato's Allegory of the Cave

Transcript

"named Socrates the thinkery proposes to teach you reason logic truth so that you can go and deceive jurors okay you can basically go..."

The Cave That Makes Socrates A Martyr

2024-10-22, day precision · Civilization #10: The Trial of Socrates and Plato's Allegory of the Cave

Transcript

"clouds are the facts and they're the ones who give me inspiration to come up with all these brilliant ideas okay so the man..."

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The Cave That Makes Socrates A Martyr

2024-10-22, day precision · claims

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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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