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Agnes Callard on Socrates and Wisdom

The Daily Stoic

CHAPTER

The Ironic Detach Provocator Reading

Yelik: We tend to read em as this sort of provocatour or this guy that asks annoying questions. You know, if you asked a high schooler what they think a philosopher was, they wouldn't describe socrates as he really was. He says the ironic detach provocator reading isa partly an artifact of the readers desire to protect themselves from what's in the text. Yelik: In shakespeare, for instance, he'll often give like, the wisest and most incisive points to the fool.

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