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Jiang argues that Socrates' 399 BCE charges of impiety and corrupting the youth echo the exact caricature of Socrates in The Clouds.
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Socrates Trial
A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "And they were terrible people. They killed at least 5 % of the Athenian population. They stole a lot of wealth. And they were..."
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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "And they were terrible people. They killed at least 5 % of the Athenian population. They stole a lot of wealth. And they were..."
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Jiang reads the trial as possibly a cruel joke meant to teach Socrates a lesson, with Athenians expecting an apology rather than a martyrdom.
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"And they were terrible people. They killed at least 5 % of the Athenian population. They stole a lot of wealth. And they were..."
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"So it almost seems like this entire trial was a cruel joke put on by the people of Athens to teach Socrates a lesson,..."
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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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