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Athenians are said to have viewed Socrates as an intellectual bully, clown, or trickster because he trapped people in illogical statements.
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Athenians are said to have viewed Socrates as an intellectual bully, clown, or trickster because he trapped people in illogical statements.
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Jiang says The Clouds shows that Athenians viewed Socrates as a fraud, manipulator, and liar who made things out of thin air.
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"the flaws in your reasoning and obviously if you get an argument Socrates you come out as a very mad person okay so the..."
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"this is not a great play okay this is not a famous play of Greece but it tells you what Athenians thought of Socrates..."
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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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