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Originally Posted by Yeah_Baby
How enlightened was their attitude towards women? Towards those of a different skin colour? I'm saying their words don't have value, just that they are a product of their times.
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Read "The Republic" and find out. Actually, no. Read "The Closing of the American Mind" by Allan Bloom and learn how historicism completely poisons our modern perceptions of philosophy and then go read "The Republic." I'm not going to be an apologist for Socrates. The man deserves much, much better.