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Jiang's metaphor for Socratic reasoning as a combative technique used by aristocrats against democratic commoners.
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mental or linguistic kung fu
Jiang's metaphor for Socratic reasoning as a combative technique used by aristocrats against democratic commoners.
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"...so what Socrates did was he taught them basically mental or linguistic Kung Fu right to go beat up these commoners who dare to..."
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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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