The Trial of Socrates: Is an examined life actually worth it?
The arc ends where the show's name comes from. Was Socrates a philosophical martyr or have we romanticized the story to inflate our own purpose? If we retcon our own wants, thoughts, and feelings, are we capable of retconning history to better inflate our own self? Episode one's concept, applied to the show's own founding myth. If this arc made you worse, was it actually worth it? Fifth and last episode in Arc One, The Unreliable Narrator. Arc Two begins in January.
Readings:
Plato, Apology. Read two translations; Grube and Reeve are both standard.
Plato, Crito and the last pages of Phaedo…
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