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martyr for truth

Jiang's phrase for Socrates using death to demonstrate the failure of democratic reason.

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martyr for truth

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Jiang's phrase for Socrates using death to demonstrate the failure of democratic reason.

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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

Transcript

"...was the opportunity for Socrates to be a martyr for the truth, right? All his life, he's been trying to convince people democracy does..."

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The Cave That Makes Socrates A Martyr

2024-10-22, day precision · glossary

Reading

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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