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Feb 2025
3m 17s

How Did Socrates Become So Wise?

JON BROOKS
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Where did Socrates' wisdom actually come from? It was not raw intellect alone. In this conversation, Donald Robertson and I look at the daily habits, the charisma, and the genuine love of people that made Socrates the figure everyone after him kept arguing with. Donald reaches for an unlikely comparison, Jimi Hendrix, to make a point about total immersion: w ... Show More
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