Monday, April 18, 2011

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Strathern, Paul, Socrate in 90 Minutes:
"Socrates grew up in the age of Pericles, when Athens was the strongest civilized city-state in the Hellenic World. Its advances influenced the entire course of human development."
Did Socrates, debating in the markets, contribute to this prosperity in some practical way?
For example, by convincing people that it is practical to be good ... ? Or by entertaining them, contributing to the urban scene, being a comedian, and inducing the citizenry to think, for recreation ... ?

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