Pericles had decided to begin his eulogy of the fallen soldiers by mentioning their ancestors. Socrates treats the ancestors as the material cause of the fallen, but by the same causal reasoning, he goes one better and mentions Attica itself as the cause of the ancestors. Pericles had used the ancestors as proof of continued greatness down to his p...
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Pericles had decided to begin his eulogy of the fallen soldiers by mentioning their ancestors. Socrates treats the ancestors as the material cause of the fallen, but by the same causal reasoning, he goes one better and mentions Attica itself as the cause of the ancestors. Pericles had used the ancestors as proof of continued greatness down to his present day, and Socrates will use Attica itself in a similar way,
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