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269 - John Vervaeke - After Socrates

The Symbolic World

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Is Socratic Cultivation of the Self Committed to Profound Transformation?

I read the feedra recently, because I was talking about the problem of pharmacon and, you know, I was in the media. And so I went back to read feedra. And now that even what you said, just lit so many things for me. Because there's some gestures that Socrates poses, like what he covers his face at some point, because he's too embarrassed to say certain things. So all those things that Socrates are doing that are so weird, right, if you go back and reread them, they make a lot more sense. If people could read in this new way, that's important. The degree to which people are ignorant of Platonism is

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