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‘Philosophy’ has never been Wisdom. Chapter 3: Socrates

(Firstly: the ‘Socratic Problem’ arises from the fact that Socrates never wrote anything down.  All we have is what Plato wrote as having been said by him.  So we don’t really know what of it was Plato’s own thinking or that of Socrates.) I was amazed by Socrates the first time I came across him, sitting in the empty market-place before breakfast with people gathered round him, and drawing them…

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