
Reading Plato | The New Thinkery Ep. 4
The New Thinkery
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Socrates' Irony
Socrates was famous for... Irony. So what does that... In ironic Socrates, what does that prefer you or Alex? What do you guys think that enables Plato to do by infusing his starring actor with irony? Yeah. I tend to have ... and I'm not sure how much Greg would agree with this, but I tend to take a sort of particular interpretation of what I think of as Socratic irony. For me, the most important guys for me is this feigned ignorance so that he consistently presents himself less wise than he really is.
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