Agnes Callard on the Theory of Everything
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The Athens Dialogues Through the Lens of Adam Smith
The dominant reading of Socrates in the literature has always been to think that he is at least some of the time either being ironic or being made fun off by Plato. But I don't share that reading, and it's ethically hard to read him that way. There's a kind of something there in text that's more difficult and more challenging that we escape from. The people who accuse Socrates of being ironic are like Thrasymachus and Calakles,. they're not the good guys or the friends, right?
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