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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
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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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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"...when we create AGI, we are literally having Jesus descend from the clouds. And so we, the priests who created AGI, will ascend to..."
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"...droughts in Iran and how do you do that well it's cloud seeding right it's cloud seeding so the idea cloud seeding you shoot..."
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"...the Vietnam War. And what the Americans did was they see the clouds so that the monsoon season would be a lot longer in..."
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"...in grandiose nation -building projects and self -congratulatory pledges to uphold Cloud Castle abstractions like the rule -based international order. These past leaders neglected..."
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"...anymore. No, guys. Okay? The entire world economy is based off the cloud. So, if you want to bank, if you want, basically, finance...."
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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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