"Socrates splits himself into two, so that there are two Socrates: the Socrates who knows in advance how the discussion is going to end, and the Socrates who travels the entire dialectical path along with his interlocutor."
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Pierre Hadot, Philosophy as a Way of Life, trans. Michael Chase (1995), p. 153
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