The Flash
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gaudinho's stolen car said:I hear that Nietszche drinks Bells and Teachers.
*guffaw*
gaudinho's stolen car said:I hear that Nietszche drinks Bells and Teachers.
As you do.DT King of all Geordies said: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.
Prestwich_Blue said:Only because you didn't start it you mean.glen quagmire said:This parody thread is in really bad taste.
Anyway - back on subject - apparently he was a bugger when he was pissed.
Sounds just like most of the posters on this forum.stony said:Most of those old Greeks like a but of bum fun, pissed or not.
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.Gelsons Dad said: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.