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a private question or a private way of life
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but perhaps he means simply that by
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pursuing a private life that again
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he's going to rely almost exclusively on
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his own individual powers of reason and judgment
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not to defer or rely on such publicgoods
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as custom, as authority, as tradition,
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things of this sort.
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But I think Socrates means more than that,
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more than simply he wishes to rely on
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the powers of private individual judgment.
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When he says that