>he fell for the ancient """""thought""""" meme
Yeah I'm reading the dialogues right now and Socrates is a fucking dumbass
>>8077238
some of the arguments are so fucking ridiculous.
>wisdom is a virtue
>doctors are wise but they do not compete with other doctors
>unjust people compete with other unjust people
>therefore injustice is not virtuous
something along those lines. it was a convoluted mess.
>>8077198
So many of these on this board. People who think Aristotle and Aquinas actually solved anything beyond a shadow of a doubt are the absolute worst.
>>8077268
fuck off glaucon, just agreeing with socrates doesnt make him right.
>>8077198
Isn't it the form of the dialogues which makes them special though? The logical process of drawing conclusions from previously defined assertions shaped what we now think of as legitimate philosophical investigation, whether or not you agree with Platonism itself.
>>8077238
Same.
>they still don't unerstand that all philosphy is a footnote to Plato's
>>8078463
Correct.
What I mean are the people who read someone like Plato or Aquinas and go "Oh, this resonated with me so game over, all the rest of philosophy BTFO and not even worth looking at." You see it a lot on /lit/ and way too often in autistic Classics majors and Christians.
