
Interview: Dr. Laurence Cooper on Alcibiades' Speech | The New Thinkery Ep. 58
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Socrates's Self Contempt
Alex, i don't think it's an accurate reading of socrates, right? This idea that he has all these perfect virtues and self restraints. That seems to me to be alcibide's projection. He recognizes socrates as a pi bor for alisofes. You say he don't get moral virtue. Alex, i do. The sign is, as you noted rigt, the man, he needs them all very good its. It's virtually universal ong human beings, s to aspire to something. Sons against it is there is to betray self.
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