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E462 John Vervaeke

This Past Weekend w/ Theo Von

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Balancing Truth and Catchiness

The scientific worldview explains everything except for how we generate science and live meaningful lives. Socrates believed that truth seeking is important but lacks relevance. The Sophists, known for inventing rhetoric, focused on making things catchy rather than truthful. They mastered manipulation by making people unconcerned about the truth and caught up in how attractive something is. Socrates aimed to combine relevance and transformative power with truth, opposing the purely catchy approach of the Sophists.

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