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Agnes Callard: Socrates, Founder of Conceptual Literacy S1 E14

Meditations with Zohar

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Are We So Sure?

How do you know, o what a person's intention is? I mean, how can you really know going to take advantage of the fact that your philosopher may be implicit? But we don't need to go so far down the rabbit hole. A i think one of the most striking features of socrates is that he has a kind of ability to induce honesty in people who don't want to be honest. They would suddenly find themselves being serious when they didn't mean to be. So it's not only a questionfk, how well can you diagnose a person's antecedent intentios, but something like, how wellCan you guide a person in conversation so as to bring out

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