Class discussion based on the following article:
The Show of Wisdom
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In Plato's Phaedrus, the god Theuth invented letters and noted their greatness. King Thamus sagely suggests to Theuth that the creation of writing may actually hinder man. Giving him a false sense of wisdom. “What you have discovered is an aid not to memory, but to reminiscence, and you give your disciples not truth, but only the semblance of truth; the…
