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But, Socrates ultimately wants to replace military combat
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with a new kind of, you might call it,
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verbal facility, verbal combat, in which again
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the person with the best argument is declared to be victorious.
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The person with the best argument, let the best argument prevail.
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The famed Socratic method of argumentation is basically all that
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remains of the older pre-Socratic culture of struggle and combat.
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The new Socratic citizen is to be trained in the art of argument
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and dialectic, and we will talk a little later about what that means.
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So, it is a challenger to the poets and all they stand for,
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the century-long tradition of poetic education that Socrates
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asserts himself, that Socrates presents himself.