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The missing intellectual record that prevents modern readers from knowing many thinkers who may have equaled Plato.
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The missing intellectual record that prevents modern readers from knowing many thinkers who may have equaled Plato.
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Jiang emphasizes uncertainty about Plato's exact sources because many Egyptian, Mesopotamian, Greek, and other philosophical materials are lost.
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"...different philosophy, okay? So look, we don't have access to Egyptian sources, right? So we don't know what sources would influence Plato. But we..."
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"But we don't know who these people were. Because remember, citizenship, it's not really just about changing the past. It's also about eliminating most..."
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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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