Socrates and Sophos

"I think that I've also been very influenced by the way that I was taught Plato. And so, you know, also because of Plato's kind of hostility and Socrates is the hostility that existed between him and the playwright." "You have to put the character, the drama together with the argument to see what is actually happening," he says. 'The ascent and the return are both important to understand what Socrates and what wisdom are about'

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