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Dear Socrates
Dear Socrates
Having returned from the turn of the Fourth Century B.C. to the turn of the Twenty-First A.D., Socrates has eagerly signed on as a Philosophy Now columnist so that he may continue to carry out his divinely-inspired dialogic mission.
Dear Socrates,
So glad to finally be able to send you off a letter. There’s a question I’ve had for years that only YOU can answer.
In the June/July 2000 issue you mentioned reading some of the material your “dear Plato” had written about you. You said you read this stuff “bemusedly.” My question is: just how closely did Plato come to expressing your genuine thought?
David Lattin (from the New World)
Dear David,
I can appreciate your curiosity, but I hesitate to become the focus of our discussions, even though I readily admit that my soul is the chief object of my concern.
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