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10 Minutes to Wisdom, Ep1: Antigone
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10 Minutes to Wisdom, Ep1: Antigone

Antigone by Sophocles: “Certainty is a False God”

We're going back to 441 BCE for one of the seven surviving plays of Sophocles. Now, nobody in recorded history ever said "you know what I need now? More ancient Greeks." But every so often you run into an argument people were having thousands of years ago that turns out to be the exact argument we're having today. This is one of those. Join us as we discuss Sophocles’ masterpiece, Antigone. We’re calling this one, “certainty is a false god…”

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