Texts in Context: The Legacy of Socrates
Death is normally the end of a person’s story; but for a small handful of figures, Socrates among them, things only get more interesting afterwards.
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Death is normally the end of a person’s story; but for a small handful of figures, Socrates among them, things only get more interesting afterwards.
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Socrates, though executed five years later, was arguably the last victim of the Thirty Tyrants.
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Having driven the Persians off after the Battle of Platæa, Athens entered upon its classical era par excellence.
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Cork (noun). An object put into the mouth of something to prevent fluids from escaping it.
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Archaic Greece saw the politics and culture of their society bloom, to a degree easily equalling the Late-Medieval Renaissance.
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Texts in Context:Darkness on the Mountains By Gabriel Blanchard Here we turn from “the contemplative Sphinx” and “garden-girdled Babylon”1 to a small, enigmatic people, as few in number
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Sorting Through Sophistries:The Know-Nothings—Part I By Gabriel Blanchard One wouldn’t think that ignorance, which is by definition a lack of something, would ramify into a variety of subtly
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The problem with fallacies like cherry-picking is that every word, sentence, book, and thought is meaningful only within its context.
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A catch in the whole system of logic is the same thing as what makes it work in the first place: it is no “respecter of persons.”
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We here at the CLT Journal are not here to assign blame. That’s for the tu quoque to do.
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