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Agnes Callard on Socrates and Wisdom

The Daily Stoic

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Socrates and the Epicureans?

The stoics take socrates as their model, and the epicureans don't. I think that we have to explain it differently because socrates is just so popular as a figure. And your answer has just got to be all the various critiques of pleasure that i keep showing in the socratic dialogues over and over and over against socrates being like, pleasure's not the good. It would be pretty hard to take that guy, you know, and make him the epicurean mascot, i think.

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