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Agnes Callard on Socrates and Wisdom

The Daily Stoic

CHAPTER

Socrates, No Man Does Wrong on Purpose

The ancient world struggled to wrap their heads around the fact that ther were just fundamentally broken people, or people operating on a different logical or ethical conception. And maybe no amount of acting with socrates an can undo that in a person. If you vilify someone enough, you actually lose a grip on the categories required to hold them accountable. Maybe it's like wearing a human disguise, but it's not actually a human being.

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