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The Examined Life

In Our Time: Philosophy

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Socrates - The Origins of the Physical Universe

Socrates is credited with shifting attention dramatic away from the concerns of his predecessors, who interested in the origins and nature of the physical universe. He shifted that focus of attention away from inquiry into what we would now think of as science to to ethics and and politics. What did that come out of, out of the blue, was the tradition of that had the previous greek thinkers, or pre-greek thinkers, hinted at that?

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