Episode #61- What's the Problem with Socrates?

Our Fake History

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History, Education, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 6 March 2018

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Socrates has been celebrated as the "father of western philosophy". This is particularly remarkable when you consider the fact that we know almost nothing about him for sure. What we consider "Socratic Philosophy" is what has been reported to us by his students. Should we trust what they are telling us about him? Tune in and find out how ancient fart jokes, free lunch, and a wrestler-turned-playwright-turned-philosopher all play a role in the story.
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0:00.0	Just before he was hanged, a prospector accused of murder
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0:31.1	There's a story that once in ancient Athens,
0:41.9	there lived a young man named Aristocles.
0:46.0	Aristocles was the son of an aristocrat,
0:48.6	and as a result, he was given the best education
0:51.9	that money could buy in the ancient world.
0:54.9	He soon proved himself to be a bit of a star student.
0:58.9	Not only was Aristocles academically gifted,
1:02.5	he was also a talented athlete.
1:05.0	He was broad-chested, even as a boy,
1:08.2	and quickly gained a reputation as an excellent wrestler.
1:12.2	He was so good in fact that he qualified to wrestle
1:14.8	at the Ismian Games, which was basically a low-level Olympics.
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