Socrates Was A Troll

[kougraducky]

But I love him so dearly 
For my Humanities 1 class, we're reading Plato's Ion, and I can't help but notice that Socrates is really good at cornering people and raising them up by singing their praises, just to bring them falling down by cutting off the foundations of their arguments. I love it...he's amazing.
You'd think the Athenians would learn to stop talking to him if they wanted to not have their worlds' rocked, but nope. They always fall into his trap.

[PLEASEHELP1991]

Socratic definitions are whack. â€" Plato

[kougraducky]

Socratic definitions are whack. â€" Plato

But Plato wrote Socrates fanfic...Socrates never wrote anything down himself...Plato has a huge boner for Socrates.

[Commander Fuckass]

I have only read Gorgias for my Self and World Philosophy class and it fried my brain.

[YPrrrr]

But Plato wrote Socrates fanfic...Socrates never wrote anything down himself...Plato has a huge boner for Socrates.

Which is why I take everything he wrote with a large granule of salt

[kougraducky]

Which is why I take everything he wrote with a large granule of salt

It's still fun.

[silvertone]

that sounds like Zhuangzi lol

[YPrrrr]

It's still fun.

Indubitably

[Boogus Epirus Aurelius]

that sounds like Zhuangzi lol

Yeah, but nobody talks about him because he was chinese and because Socrates is more easily referenced when you\'re talking philosphy-lite and the basis of rhetoric which most collegers slurp up in fundamental comm classes.

[kougraducky]

I like how I'm enough of a nerd to tie Star Wars in with Socrates.

[snoorkel]

socratic = fabricated pop cult response to pythagorean cult mysticism, known but obscured by platox, 2

he knew it:
[spoiler][img]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8c/David_-_The_Death_of_Socrates.jpg/800px-David_-_The_Death_of_Socrates.jpg[/img]what exactly does this mean then[/spoiler]

socrates is a retelling, the idea of him is one half of the dialectic that the idealist completes
o crafty greeks.

[Travis]

socratic = fabricated pop cult response to pythagorean cult mysticism, known but obscured by platox, 2

he knew it:
[spoiler][img]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8c/David_-_The_Death_of_Socrates.jpg/800px-David_-_The_Death_of_Socrates.jpg[/img]what exactly does this mean then[/spoiler]

socrates is a retelling, the idea of him is one half of the dialectic that the idealist completes
o crafty greeks.

quoted for complete truth

[Socks]

I don't know, the grand sum of western philosophy was a civilization left in ruins at the end of WWII. In a sense they all failed, but the Eastern writings are now just being fulfilled.

[me003]

I like how I'm enough of a nerd to tie Star Wars in with Socrates.

Oh god. I worked with people like you, this one guy could somehow tell redneck star wars jokes. I forgot what he said but it went, "you know you're a redneck when...." and ended in a star wars reference. He was in his mid 30's working at a pizza place, not many people liked him.

[silvertone]

Socrates was balck.