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The woman who taught Socrates the meaning of love

The woman who taught Socrates the meaning of love

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Socrates visiting Aspasia, painting by Nicolas André Monsiaux, 1801

It is a well-known but perhaps not always well understood fact that philosophy, composed of two indispensable Greek roots— philos, φίλος, and sophia, σοφία—is the “love of wisdom”. Not “the study of knowledge”. Not ‘the goal of academic achievement.’ Not “the pursuit of expertise and p…

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