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Ep. 4 - Socrates and the Quest for Wisdom

Awakening from the Meaning Crisis

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Socrates's Philosophy

Socrates knew how reason and love go together. For socrates, separating them is one of our greatest ollies. We need to rationally know what we should most care about. He finds that meaning so important that he's willing to die for it. The shamonic is still in socrates because he could do the following: meditate on his own thoughts; drink a lot without getting drunk; go into battle in winter without any right shoes on his feet.; be famously brave. Whenever he was about to do something wrong, he'd hear this voice that would tell him, don't do it, socrates.

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