GMoL S2E12 Greeks with Donald Clark
Great Minds on Learning
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The Death of Socrates
Donald: Learning for socrates was all about asking the right questions. The aim of learning was to pursue, with a ruthless intellectual honesty, answers to difficult questions. He died through enforced suicide, a drinking hemlock. Was made to take hemlock by thee suit of athens. This is one of the most iconic deaths in the whole of culture. And it's quite difficult reading socrates because it's almost painfully deep and logical.
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