The Gadfly Analogy - Plato's Apology

Here is the fifth podcast episode taken from the core concept series on Plato's Apology.

You may have heard references to being a "social gadfly". That phrase comes from Socrates himself, and he explains that being like a gadfly is precisely how he fulfills his important social function for his city of Athens

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