Socrates Thread

[rgraham666]

Sigh.

I've got that Penguin edition of The Dialogues. Must get it out and read it again.

 

[SEVERUSMAX]

If you want an example of the kind of society embraced by Plato in real life, look at the late, not-so-great Soviet Union. Plato was a proto-Marxist-Leninist. I doubt the same was true of Socrates.

 

[NoJo]

If you want an example of the kind of society embraced by Plato in real life, look at the late, not-so-great Soviet Union. Plato was a proto-Marxist-Leninist. I doubt the same was true of Socrates.

You're getting him mixed up with Pluto, the proto Scooby Doo-ist.

 

[SEVERUSMAX]

You're getting him mixed up with Pluto, the proto Scooby Doo-ist.

Lmao. But, seriously, he advocated a tyrannical regime that held everything in common. That's Communism to a tee.

 

[Roxanne Appleby]

Me so dumb - me still not figure out how to post pictures. Me post links instead, from Raphael's "The School of Athens." Me love Raphael & other Renaissance masters - pictures so pretty!

The School of Athens
Plato and Aristotle
Socrates, Xenophon, Eschines and Alcibiades

 

[CharleyH]

... is that the AH believes that Socrates, but paradoxically not his method or teachings, is a fabulous figure concocted by such bit-players as Plato, Aristotle, Aristophenes and Xenophon in order to promulgate wild and untested ideas on the nature of discourse and philosophy.

I tried to argue something like that in my grade 13 debate. Too bad I also added he was as real as Jesus.

Socrates: Rocker for Ages

 

[SEVERUSMAX]

There is no more independent verification of Jesus than there is of Socrates.

 

[CharleyH]

There is no more independent verification of Jesus than there is of Socrates.

As said, I tried to argue 'something' like that.

 

[BlackShanglan]

I drank what?

 

[CharleyH]

I drank what?

If it was yellow - I DO NOT want to know.

 

[rgraham666]

I drank what?

LOL. Love that movie.

"Considering your career choices and lack of social skills consider this your last chance of actually having sex."

"Welcome to Pacific Tech Smart People On Ice!"

"What are we going to do with a five megawatt laser anyway?
I don't know. Make a gigantic swiss cheese?"

Hilarious flick.

 

[OhMissScarlett]

LOL. Love that movie.

"Considering your career choices and lack of social skills consider this your last chance of actually having sex."

"Welcome to Pacific Tech Smart People On Ice!"

"What are we going to do with a five megawatt laser anyway?
I don't know. Make a gigantic swiss cheese?"

Hilarious flick.

"Was it that dream where you're standing in sun-god type robes and thousands of naked women are screaming and throwing little pickles at you?"

 

[logophile]

My addition to our tribute to Socrates!

Immanuel Kant was a real pissant
who was very rarely stable.
Heidegger, Heidegger was a boozy beggar
who could think you under the table.
David Hume could out consume
Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel,
And Wittgenstein was a beery swine
who was just as sloshed as Schlegel.

There's nothing Nietzsche couldn't teach ya
'bout the raisin' of the wrist.
Socrates himself was permanently pissed.

John Stuart Mill, of his own free will,
after half a pint of shandy was particularly ill.
Plato, they say, could stick it away,
'alf a crate of whiskey every day!
Aristotle, Aristotle was a bugger for the bottle,
and Hobbes was fond of his Dram.
And Rene Descartes was a drunken fart:
"I drink, therefore I am."

Yes, Socrates himself is particularly missed;
A lovely little thinker, but a bugger when he's pissed.

-- Monty Python

 

[rgraham666]

"Was it that dream where you're standing in sun-god type robes and thousands of naked women are screaming and throwing little pickles at you?"

LOL. I'd forgotten that one. Been so long since I'd seen the movie.

Thank you logo. Another old favourite. "Do you mind if we call you Bruce? It will avoid confusion."

 

[Roxanne Appleby]

Immanuel Kant was a real pissant
who was very rarely stable.
Heidegger, Heidegger was a boozy beggar
who could think you under the table.
David Hume could out consume
Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel,
And Wittgenstein was a beery swine
who was just as sloshed as Schlegel.

There's nothing Nietzsche couldn't teach ya
'bout the raisin' of the wrist.
Socrates himself was permanently pissed.

John Stuart Mill, of his own free will,
after half a pint of shandy was particularly ill.
Plato, they say, could stick it away,
'alf a crate of whiskey every day!
Aristotle, Aristotle was a bugger for the bottle,
and Hobbes was fond of his Dram.
And Rene Descartes was a drunken fart:
"I drink, therefore I am."

Yes, Socrates himself is particularly missed;
A lovely little thinker, but a bugger when he's pissed.

-- Monty Python

Silly Monty - there were no distilled spirits in Plato's day!

 

[Selena_Kitt]

LOL. Love that movie.

Can you hammer a 6 inch spike through a board with your penis?

A girl's got to have her standards..............

 

[OhMissScarlett]

Can you hammer a 6 inch spike through a board with your penis?

A girl's got to have her standards..............

Haha. Oh, that was one of my favorite parts. I'm gonna get that on my tombstone, I think.

 

[An Awful Cad]

You can be true, you can be false
You be given the same reward
Socrates and milhous nixon
Both went the same way - through the kitchen
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