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A: Is avoiding hypocrisy an impulse for philosophy?

Joseph WeissmanThe hypocritical relationships of the Sophists to money was a major point of criticism against it -- Plato's criticism is basically that they would teach anyone who paid, where Socrates would "promiscuously" teach anyone at all -- or at least those who seemed like they were bright enough to keep ...

 
 
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@cerberus: I didn't know there was a ring in the Odyssey!
@weissman: So phemus=songs; how do I embed pictures in questions?
 
 
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@MoziburUllah No ring, but the way to become invisible is by destroying your opponent's sight.
 
 
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@JosephWeissman Nice!
Poor Polifemo.
 
Polyphemus, blinded by "Nohbdy" :) This is "the" guile of Odysseus, his becoming-imperceptible, a becoming-everyone and no one...
I know!!
 
Yeah his name helped too!
 
 
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yay, it's ethics week!
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Q: Philosophy Question Challenge: Ethics

Joseph WeissmanIt's time for the second in an ongoing series of question challenges! Background By tag, ethics with 392 questions is one of our community's strongest subject areas overall (although it is a distant second to the behemoth logic with 617 questions.) However, much of our content around ethics t...

 

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