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Published: December 4, 2013 | Posted in Counter-Currents Radio | Also tagged Callicles, ethics, Gorgias, Greg Johnson, hedonism, living well, morality, philosophy, Plato, podcasts, rhetoric, self-actualization, Socrates, The Republic | 1 Response

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Counter-Currents Radio Podcast No. 66
What Socrates Knew:
Plato’s Gorgias, Part 9 of 10

Greg Johnson

49:17 / 335 words

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Published: November 27, 2013 | Posted in Counter-Currents Radio | Also tagged Callicles, ethics, Gorgias, Greg Johnson, hedonism, living well, morality, philosophy, Plato, podcasts, rhetoric, self-actualization, Socrates | 1 Response

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Counter-Currents Radio Podcast No. 64
What Socrates Knew:
Plato’s Gorgias, Part 8 of 10

Greg Johnson

31:11 / 335 words

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Published: November 20, 2013 | Posted in Counter-Currents Radio | Also tagged Callicles, ethics, Gorgias, Greg Johnson, hedonism, living well, morality, philosophy, Plato, podcasts, rhetoric, self-actualization, Socrates | Leave a comment

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Counter-Currents Radio Podcast No. 62
What Socrates Knew:
Plato’s Gorgias, Part 7 of 10

Greg Johnson

30:08 / 395 words

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Published: November 13, 2013 | Posted in Counter-Currents Radio | Also tagged Alcibiades, Ayn Rand, Callicles, egoism, ethics, evil, Gorgias, Greg Johnson, hedonism, living well, morality, philosophy, Plato, podcasts, rhetoric, self-actualization, Socrates | Leave a comment

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Counter-Currents Radio Podcast No. 60
What Socrates Knew:
Plato’s Gorgias, Part 6 of 10

Greg Johnson

33:37 / 361 words

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Published: August 7, 2013 | Posted in Counter-Currents Radio | Also tagged Callicles, ethics, Gorgias, Greg Johnson, living well, morality, philosophy, Plato, podcasts, rhetoric, self-actualization, Socrates | Leave a comment

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Counter-Currents Radio Podcast No. 59
What Socrates Knew:
Plato’s Gorgias, Part 5 of 10

Greg Johnson

45:21 / 361 words

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Published: July 31, 2013 | Posted in Counter-Currents Radio | Also tagged ethics, euthanasia, G. W. F. Hegel, Gorgias, Greg Johnson, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, living well, morality, Napoleon Bonaparte, negative liberty, philosophy, Plato, podcasts, positive liberty, rhetoric, self-actualization, Socrates, suicide | 1 Response

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Counter-Currents Radio Podcast No. 57
What Socrates Knew:
Plato’s Gorgias, Part 4 of 10

Greg Johnson

34:52 / 350 words

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Counter-Currents Radio Podcast No. 56
What Socrates Knew:
Plato’s Gorgias, Part 3 of 10

Greg Johnson

Plato in Nuremberg Chronicle, 1493

41:33 / 359 words

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In August of 1999, I started an eight-week lecture course called “What Socrates Knew: Plato on Art, Wisdom, and Happiness.” Read more …

Published: July 3, 2013 | Posted in Counter-Currents Radio | Also tagged ethics, Gorgias, Greg Johnson, living well, morality, philosophy, Plato, podcasts, rhetoric, self-actualization, Socrates | 2 Responses

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Counter-Currents Radio Podcast No. 55
What Socrates Knew:
Plato’s Gorgias, Part 2 of 10

Greg Johnson

Luca della Robbia, “Plato and Aristotle, or Philosophy,” 1437-1439

27:50 / 345 words

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Counter-Currents Radio Podcast No. 54
What Socrates Knew:
Plato’s Gorgias, Part 1 of 10

Greg Johnson

47:43 / 332 words

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In August of 1999, I started an eight-week lecture course called “What Socrates Knew: Plato on Art, Wisdom, and Happiness.”

The Trial of Socrates:
Antiphon the Sophist

Greg Johnson

A third century AD papyrus attributed to the first book of On Truth (P.Oxy. XI 1364 fr. 1, cols. v-vii)

Papyrus fragment of Antiphon’s “On Truth,” 3rd century A.D.

1,922 words

Author’s Note:

The following text is a transcript by V. S. of the prefatory remarks on Antiphon the Sophist from the first part of my lecture on Aristophanes’ Clouds. As usual, I have edited this transcript to remove excessive wordiness. The quotes come from the first edition of A Presocratics Reader, ed. Patricia Curd.

Antiphon the Sophist was a younger contemporary of Socrates. He was the author of the treatise On Truth, only fragments of which survive. Read more …