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Socrates' self-image as the one who stings Athens by exposing its nasty truths for its own improvement.
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Dante's Hell is not just a ladder of sins in this lecture.
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Dante's Hell is not just a ladder of sins in this lecture.
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At sentencing, Socrates' claim to be a gadfly and public servant leads him to propose a pension or small fine, further enraging the jury.
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"...found me guilty is because I speak the truth. I'm a gadfly, okay? Gadfly. I go around and I point out the nasty truths..."
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"I'll pay a fine, okay? And then we're good. How about that? And again, the Athenian jurors were pissed off, right? So they voted..."
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"...when they're bitten by fleas or gnats or by the sharp gadfly. When I had set my eyes upon the faces of some on..."
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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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