Jiang says Plato's move of dialogue onto the page created reason and reflection by freeing the reader from the crowd and actor emotions and allowing lifelong return to the words.
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Jiang says Plato's move of dialogue onto the page created reason and reflection by freeing the reader from the crowd and actor emotions and allowing lifelong return to the words.
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"So that's what Homer did for the Greeks. Then you have Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euboides, and what they did that was different is, rather..."
"And so, this creates a capacity for reason and reflection, okay? You can sort of reason out if the words make sense to you...."
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