>Plato, I think, was ill.
>Plato was still young when he watched mob justice kill the greatest, kindest, and wisest man Western civilisation may have ever known
>Plato sat and wrote painstaking, loving accounts of the days leading up to Socrates' death, as he talked with his friends, defended philosophy without any hope of saving himself, declined a coward's flight from his execution cell, and slowly and gracefully died from the hemlock
>tfw you realize while reading the Phaedo that Plato probably cried onto the scroll as he wrote it
>tfw you slow down your reading and think of Plato, carefully choosing every word, as he described his hero slowly nodding off to sleep forever
>tfw ut te postremo donarem munere mortis et mutam nequiquam alloquerer cinerem, quandoquidem fortuna mihi tete abstulit ipsum
>tfw atque in perpetuum frater, ave atque vale
>>7857469
>socrates
>great
>kind
>wise
>shiggy diggy
>>7857469
> tfw you finally realize that Socrates was evil and Athens was actually right to execute him
>>7857492
Elaborate pls
>>7857469
>mob justice kill the greatest, kindest, and wisest man Western civilisation may have ever known
Fuck off, Socrates was guilty of breaking the Athenian laws and he was rightly condemned; one thing people forget is that he could have easily proposed a different penalty for himself (as was customary) be he chose not to do it. Not that I'm saying he was wrong though, but he certainly wasn't 'innocent'.
>>7857512
Socrates was an inhuman mystagogue of science who even himself admitted that he was a sick person controlled by an evil demon and per defect lacked any capacity for man's one saving grace - art. He insisted that only that which could be rationally understood was true or beautiful and thus corrupted the then youth, now humanity, with the Faustian curse that will inevitably destroy us.
>>7857530
But he did propose a different penalty: free meals for the rest of his life
>>7857552
nietzsche leave, please
>he could have easily proposed a different penalty for himself (as was customary) be he chose not to do it.
how does that make him guilty? not to mention >>7857676
>>7857372
the illest
>>7857945
Makes him guilty of not obeying the customs and subjecting his individual will to the people. As I said, he is not wrong, his conviction on the ability of self-conscious will to decide what is Good is an absolute important step in the history of the world, but he is still guilty according to the Athenian law.
>>7857473
Whether he was any of those things, consider what he must have been to Plato
>>7857552
>evil demon
>evil
Go fuck yourself
>>7857469
Plato was a fag and his shit's retarded
>>7857552
damn...
this thread was fantastic
>>7857965
Under my law, you're guilty of being a faggot, and must be put to death, it doesn't matter what good blah blah blah blah... you're still guilty under my law.
