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Agnes Callard: Socrates, Founder of Conceptual Literacy S1 E14

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The Body of Water Is a Puddle

Socrates deferred to the state, even though he didn't think that the state had knowledge. Montaigne's radical scepticism strangely led him to double down on being catholic in the wake of the protestant reformation. So i think that the socratic deference to the state is a little more am it's not because the state is impressive and has stuck around for very long. It has notin socrates's time. They keep having like, you know, s tyrants will come in and ther'll be a revolution. Hs, so i said socrates is a political which is sort of true but he also says he's the nly real politician in at

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