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    "title": "Socrates in Plato’s Phaedrus",
    "author": "Plato",
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    "summary": "Outside Athens’ walls, Plato shows Socrates improvising and then recanting a speech about love. The character becomes inspired speaker, analyst of soul, and critic of writing unable to answer questions.",
    "learning": "Compare Socrates’ successive roles as speaker and dialectician, analyze his palinode, and qualify Plato’s criticism of writing.",
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