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Interview: Dr. Laurence Cooper on Alcibiades' Speech | The New Thinkery Ep. 58

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Alcibiades, a Satirist, and a Philosopher?

Alcibiades is from the gico, fascinated by by socrates. The pervasive theme of his praise and cretique of tes this is exacty socrat, socratess power. Socrat goes on to praise socrates for his enormous endurance, power of self control. And then there're two other examples, both military examples, one in battle and one in retreat. It's not thinking about something that alcibiades isn't even thinking about it all night long. This is actually quite impressive. But so therefore he's a mew ti, like the pain of holding up a boom box for five hours,. Back on the hadies, they were mooon

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