
HoP 017 - Raphael Woolf on Socrates
History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps
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The Problem of Socrates
Socirates was a very good teacher, particularly. I think he adopted a rather different attitude to people who weren't in his circle. And i think it's very natural that socrates should be at his most provocative when dealing with a sort of buding genius like plato. The more brilliant the student, the more you're going to challenge them.
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