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Jiang argues that Socrates used the trial as performance art to become a martyr for truth and prove his claim that democracy fails because people cannot reason out truth.
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Jiang argues that Socrates used the trial as performance art to become a martyr for truth and prove his claim that democracy fails because people cannot reason out truth.
"...the argument that for Socrates, this trial was a type of performance art. He was a performance artist."
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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