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After Socrates' death in 399 BCE, Plato is said to spend twelve years traveling and absorbing different philosophies.
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"...make the argument that Socrates was not that much of an intellectual influence on Plato. And the reason why is, remember, Socrates questioned your..."
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"And while he's traveling, he's absorbing lots of different philosophy, okay? So look, we don't have access to Egyptian sources, right? So we don't..."
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"...to islam this is important for us because um the muslim intellectual influence on Europe has been whitewashed from history. This is something you..."
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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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