Ep. 109: Systemic Sophistry
Young Heretics
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Is There a Way?
i think hat we haven't really talked that much about alcibiades in the show, although in the symposium we did. There's an interesting combination here between spiritual virtue and physical beauty than i want to read. And because of that, in communities where you have thi this sort of perverse cycle going on of rewarding people for persuasion and false rhetoric, somebody who tries to turn aside to philosophy is going to look useless to the state. So he's saying, there is, there's a way. It doesn't have to be this way. But because resentment, resentment hatesx excellence, right? And is rebuked by excellence.
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