... This close relationship allowed for the Sophists to impose their distaste of Socrates on their students. His dangerous freethinking and materi! al abandonment was not within the realm of control the Sophists had over Athenians. While Socrates saw that they were deceiving society and tailoring the truth to suit their political ... and the yearning for virtue; in fact it took nearly fifteen hundred years before anyone could follow up and expand on his works (Plato and Aristotle could grasp but not expand). To use Plato's parable, Socrates had brought the sun into the cave in order to show p...

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