269 - John Vervaeke - After Socrates
The Symbolic World
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The Dialogue Functions in the Dialogue, Right?
Many of the dialogues end in aporia, which really undermines the claim that what Socrates is doing is laying out an argument and he's got a conclusion. So for example, there'll be a dialogue on courage and you'll have two figures, two generals, I believe, and they'll both be talking about courage. And then Socrates will do his thing. He'll ask the questions and the definitions don't hold, they don't, right? If you just follow sort of the propositions, and you don't pay attention to the drama, you'll come to the conclusion, oh, well, look, it just ends in skepticism.
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