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Jiang's phrase for Greek tragedians as teachers who train Athenians in democratic responsibility, justice, and truth.
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prophets of democracy
Jiang's phrase for Greek tragedians as teachers who train Athenians in democratic responsibility, justice, and truth.
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Jiang's phrase for Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides as playwright-teachers who instructed Athens in democratic meaning and responsibility.
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"...remember I said that Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Eupodes, they're really prophets of democracy. They see themselves as teachers who teach Athenians how to practice..."
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"...were really playwrights, poets, but they were first and foremost prophets of democracy. They were teachers of democracy who told the Athenian people, why..."
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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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