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"Socrates: A Life Worth Living traces the life and ideas of one of Western Civilization's founding philosophers, whose influence is still felt more than two thousand years later. Socrates is famous for how he died, executed by the Athenian government forcorrupting the youth of Athens, but his most important contribution was to challenge the people around him to test their ideas and beliefs in conversation with each other, in the belief that in this...
4) The Philosopher, the Dog and the Wedding: The Story of the Infamous Female Philosopher Hipparchia
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Selfmadehero
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20220920
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This is the story of Hipparchia, one of the first women to become a philosopher. Greece, the fourth century BCE. Hipparchia travels to Athens to meet the rich son of a prominent family to whom she hopes to be married. But she also encounters a strange philosopher who lives on the streets. And as the marriage draws nearer, she becomes increasingly captivated by Crates' ideas and way of life. Torn between the traditional expectations of Greek society...
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