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6 Jun 2018 Conversations with Tyler David Brooks on Youth, Morality, and Loneliness (Live at Mason)
“I got Socrates. [laughter] I will say Socrates is overrated for this reason. We call them dialogues.”
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- 6 Jun 2018
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…Socrates, overrated or underrated? [laughs] This is so absurd. [laughter] With everybody else it’s like Breaking Bad, overrated or underrated? I got Socrates. [laughter] I will say Socrates is overrated for this reason. We call them dialogues. But really, if you read them, they’re like Socrates making a long speech and some other schmo saying, “Oh yes. It must surely be so, Socrates.” [laughter] So it’s not really a dialogue, it’s just him speaking with somebody else affirming. And it’s Plato reporting Socrates. So it’s Plato’s monologue about a supposed dialogue, which may itself be a monologue.…
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