Trouble With Socrates

[The Flash]

I hear that Nietszche drinks Bells and Teachers.

*guffaw*

 

[Prestwich_Blue]

I ranted at the telly that Homer was an oral poet thought to be blind so the chances of him writing the scrolls were pretty thin.

As you do.

 

[Bellyeye]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s1MgCV6uGuc[/youtube]

 

[stony]

This parody thread is in really bad taste.

Only because you didn't start it you mean.

Anyway - back on subject - apparently he was a bugger when he was pissed.

Most of those old Greeks like a but of bum fun, pissed or not.

 

[denislawsbackheel]

his students should have released a CD

 

[stonerblue]

Rather than buying the proper ones you get in sets i just use an old CD. Not that i ever polish me table

 

[Prestwich_Blue]

Most of those old Greeks like a but of bum fun, pissed or not.

Sounds just like most of the posters on this forum.

 

[Teabag Express]

This bastards been goin around tellin people he has MS... NOT ok.

 

[Gaylord du Bois]

Socrates has been going around telling folk that he's got Marks & Spencer ? That boy will never learn.

 

[Viva Rivaldo]

Or rather, the trouble with ascribing anything to Socrates is that he never wrote anything down. All that we have of his teachings were either contemporary accounts, or recordings of his students, mostly Plato.

and we definitely know what Plato thought about democracy. So while Socrates is thought to have been critical of democracy, we can’t really know how much of that was colored by Plato’s feelings on the subject.

You should also take factors like translation into account too. Not only have important things been lost in translation from the classics, but also, undoubtedly, things have been added/changed significantly in some instances.

At least we know Socrates existed though. Homer didn't...The Iliad and Odyssey are just collections of bards tales from around the Aegean at that time.