"The tragedy was deepened by the fact that both sides were right. The complaint about [sophists'] fees was unjust; short of a state subsidy, no other way was then open to finance higher education.
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If the sophists criticized traditions and morals it was of course with no evil intent: they thought that they were liberating slaves.
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Like the encyclopaedists of Enlightenment France, they swept away the dying past with magnificent elan, and did not live long enough--or think far enough--to establish new institutions to replace those that loosened reason would destroy."
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repeated historical failures to get to
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yeah--I think one problem is that perhaps no one has ever quite gotten to that kind of fluidity, and lacking successful examples it's hard to imagine what such organizations would look like
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