The Gadfly Analogy - Plato's Apology - Gregory B. Sadler
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English - June 07, 2018 15:26 - 12 minutes - 12.4 MB - ★★★★★ - 70 ratingsEducation Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
This lecture discusses Plato's work, The Apology. In that work, Socrates is on trial, defending himself against charges of impiety and corrupting the young of Athens. He refutes those charges, and also narrates the story of how he ended up doing philosophy. In this particular lecture we discuss the analogy Socrates provides
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