The character in the comedy supposedly walks on air and, according to Socrates, talks nonsense. ... He tells the members of the jury that he has two ideas about what might happen after death. ... It is also mentioned that it is here that the Two Arguments, Right and Wrong, can be learnt. ... In addition it is mentioned that the philosophers are "studying the path of the moon", investigate "phenomena underground" and examine "the lower reaches of hell" (page 120, Penguin edition, The Clouds, Aristophanes). ... From these two works, it is only possible to try and reconstruct some of the thought ...

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