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You're listening to the partial examin' life a podcast by some guys who at one point

set on doing philosophy for a living but then thought better of it.

Our question for episode 233 is something like, can virtue be taught or maybe, what's

the relation of the various virtues to each other or maybe how is philosophy different

from sophistry?

And we read Plato's dialogue Protagoras written around a 380 BCE.

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This is Mark Linton-Mire, merchant importer of knowledge in medicine Wisconsin.

This is Seth Paskin, courageous, but not wise in Austin, Texas.

This is Dylan Casey sitting spellbound just as if Orpheus had spoken an incantation in

medicine Wisconsin.

This is Wes Lone and Cambridge, Massachusetts.

We return months again to Plato.

So I think different members of the group had different reactions to this.

My initial reaction was we should have done this earlier.

This would have been great introductory dialogue, but as far as just the topics covered, it

kind of overlaps with a lot of what we've done before.

So I was a little dubious.

I know others of you were much more enthusiastic and then after I read some of the secondary

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