https://youtu.be/8_i6GGuEmSM
Here is the fourth lecture of the first week of our course on Plato’s Apology. The accusations could rightly be made against the Sophists, but Socrates argues that he is doing something different from the Sophists. This would have not been obvious at all to his audience of ordinary people in Athens, and he thus takes on the challenge of describing what differentiates himself from the Sophists.
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