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What is Wisdom? with J.W. Bertolotti

Stoicism: Philosophy as a Way of Life Podcast

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The Problem With Self-Awareness

Socrates thinks double ignorance being ignorant but not knowing that you're ignorant is where the real problem lies like there are several with the first alcabides if I remember rightly talks about this it's double ignorance. Socrates says there's nothing wrong with ignorance it's just as long as you know that you're ignorant and so on. He also has some sympathy for the skeptics he kind of missed the days when people would be a little bit more humility about subjects that they've got zero training or education and why.

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