Greg Jenner
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Prepare for the workplace. Yeah. Because Alexander is told you don't have to be a philosopher, but please do listen to the philosophers. Which feels like a compromise. Like, OK, all right, you're not going to be a philosopher, I get it, but can you at least listen to them?
So rhetoric is speech-making.
So rhetoric is speech-making.
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Yes.
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Yeah.
So it's aged 48 that we get Aristotle returning to Athens. And he's lived life by this point. He has written a new constitution. He's fallen in love. He's become a new dad. He's been widowed. He's invented zoology. He's invented marine biology. He's tutored a trust fund brat and survived the most dangerous blaze in the world. And he's gone back home to Athens.
So it's aged 48 that we get Aristotle returning to Athens. And he's lived life by this point. He has written a new constitution. He's fallen in love. He's become a new dad. He's been widowed. He's invented zoology. He's invented marine biology. He's tutored a trust fund brat and survived the most dangerous blaze in the world. And he's gone back home to Athens.
You'd think to take up his job at the academy, but he doesn't, right? He ends up opening a rival school, which I don't know if that's petty. No, it's not petty. He just wanted to run his own show.
You'd think to take up his job at the academy, but he doesn't, right? He ends up opening a rival school, which I don't know if that's petty. No, it's not petty. He just wanted to run his own show.
Yes. So the Lyceum is arguably the first teaching university. The academy is a philosophy class. But this has got a library. This feels like it's something different. It is something different.
Yes. So the Lyceum is arguably the first teaching university. The academy is a philosophy class. But this has got a library. This feels like it's something different. It is something different.
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