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In Jiang's summary of The Clouds, the thinkery teaches reason, logic, and truth as tools for manipulating juries and escaping debts.
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THE Clouds
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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "...said, Remember those with double chests, the miserable ones born of the clouds, whom Thysias battled when they gorged themselves, and those whom Gideon..."
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In Jiang's reading, The Clouds portrays Socratic reasoning as a technique that lets a son justify beating his father and lets debtors deny obligations.
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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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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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"...play was produced in 423 BCE and the play was called the clouds so let me first explain the plot of the clouds and..."
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"...access truth better also from here I can draw inspiration from the clouds who are the true gods okay not Zeus not Heracles the"
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"clouds are the facts and they're the ones who give me inspiration to come up with all these brilliant ideas okay so the man..."
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"he's not a god so I swore an oath to nothing therefore I owe you nothing the creditors the credit obviously gets angry and..."
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"...shows us that Athenians didn't think much of Socrates he worships the clouds right which is nothing so what they're saying is Socrates makes..."
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"...Athens, including Zeus. Which is what he did in the plague clouds, okay? The second is corrupting the youth of Athens. okay, basically miseducating..."
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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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"...said, Remember those with double chests, the miserable ones born of the clouds, whom Thysias battled when they gorged themselves, and those whom Gideon..."
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"...fall short, that with your prayers, you may disperse all of the clouds of his mortality so that, at the highest, joy be his..."
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"...brilliant light surrounded him like the appearance of a rainbow in the clouds on a rainy day so was the radiance around him this..."
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"...i saw all the heaven colored by the hue that paints the clouds at morning and at evening with the sun confronting them and..."
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"...smartphones that access the internet. So our memories are stored on the cloud, and what our brains do is it accesses the cloud, yes?"
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