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Is 'Honest Joe' or 'Don the con' the Socratic ideal?
08 December 2024 - 00:00
“Be as you wish to appear” said Socrates. That's easier said than done. When he said it he was living nearly 2,500 years ago in Athens, so the kind of stuff he had in mind was probably at the high-minded heroics end of the personality spectrum. You know, old-fashioned ideas like fighting for truth and justice, living ethically, demonstrating valour in the face of impossible odds; things that still have a little sway, especially in celluloid where Marvel superheroes battle it out in an endless supercharged loop of good vs evil. ..
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