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Plato's Republic
In Our Time: Philosophy
Is Socrates a Philosopher?
The best most of us can hope for is not to become philosophers ourselves, but that philosophers should be the ones who are directing important parts of our lives. Odo yet, i just thought it might be worth emphasizing that socrates doesn't, i think, a believe that we can all be liberated from the cave. Could you develop that? O man, yes. I mean, i think there are two ways of thinking about this. One of them is ir to imagine that this is a genuine proposal for the way that philosophy works. A different way of thinking about it would be that this is an illustration of how actually it doesn't.
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