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Apr 15
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Agnes Callard on Lessons from Socrates

EDMONDS AND WARBURTON
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Does Socrates still have something to teach us? Agnes Callard thinks he has. Here she discusses the great Athenian and his continuing relevance with David Edmonds. 

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