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HoP 017 - Raphael Woolf on Socrates

History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps

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Is Socrates a Moral Exemplar, or a Sui Generous Kind of Person?

In xenophon and in plato, iman is held up as admirable. Is he a moral exemplar or almost some sui generous kind of person whomyou could never be like? I think i'd probably move towards the latter,. He's often described by others as, to use the greek word atopos, which means somebody who doesn't have a place. And i think it's, i think he is being portrayed as somebody who's than merely human, am doesn't really belong on this earth.

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