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thinkery

The comic school in The Clouds where Socrates is imagined as teaching reasoning techniques for manipulation.

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The Cave That Makes Socrates A Martyr

2024-10-22, day precision · Civilization #10: The Trial of Socrates and Plato's Allegory of the Cave

Transcript

"named Socrates the thinkery proposes to teach you reason logic truth so that you can go and deceive jurors okay you can basically go..."

The Cave That Makes Socrates A Martyr

2024-10-22, day precision · Civilization #10: The Trial of Socrates and Plato's Allegory of the Cave

Transcript

"...gets very angry and he decides to go burn down the thinkery with Socrates inside it okay and that's how the play ends now..."

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The Cave That Makes Socrates A Martyr

2024-10-22, day precision · glossary

Reading

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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