#socratic dialogues

[dreamy-conceit]

How will you go about finding that thing, the nature of which is totally unknown to you?

— Plato, 'Meno's Paradox'.

[tmarshconnors]

“The man who makes everything that leads to happiness depends upon himself, and not upon other men, has adopted the very best plan for living happily. This is the man of moderation, the man of manly character and wisdom.”

Plato, born Aristocles, was an ancient Greek philosopher of the Classical period who is considered a foundational thinker in Western philosophy and an innovator of the written dialogue and dialectic forms.

Born: Classical Athens

Died: Athens, Greece

Founder of the Academy: Plato founded the Academy in Athens around 387 BCE, which is often considered the first institution of higher learning in the Western world. The Academy remained an influential philosophical and scientific research centre for several centuries.

Socratic Dialogues: Plato is best known for his dialogues and written works in which he uses the character of his teacher Socrates to explore philosophical ideas. These dialogues cover various topics including ethics, politics, metaphysics, and epistemology. Famous examples include "The Republic," "Phaedo," "Symposium," and "Timaeus."

Theory of Forms: One of Plato's central philosophical concepts is the Theory of Forms. According to this theory, the physical world is not the true reality but rather a shadow of the true reality, which consists of abstract, perfect, unchanging forms or ideas. For example, all circular objects are imperfect copies of the perfect form of a circle.

Influence on Western Thought: Plato's work has had a profound and lasting impact on Western philosophy and science. His ideas laid the groundwork for much of Western metaphysical and epistemological thought and influenced later philosophers, including his student Aristotle and many medieval and modern thinkers.

Political Philosophy: In "The Republic," Plato presents his vision of an ideal state, ruled by philosopher-kings. He advocates for a society governed by wisdom and reason rather than power or wealth. His political philosophy addresses justice, the role of the individual within society, and the importance of education and virtue.

[lucabyte]

A belief in Nominative Determinsim

[kebriones]

I am normal about plato's Alcibiades 1

[ditoob]

Happy pride y’all

[stormofdefiance]

Dkdkdkdks this is not a serious analysis in any way at all but the podcast I’m listening to has started going through Plato’s dialogues & in one of them (The Symposium) an excruciatingly handsome young man, Alcibiades, tries desperately to seduce Socrates with his good looks in the hopes of gleaning more wisdom from him. In it Socrates does get into bed with him, but all that goes down is Socrates ‘not moving at all’ and rambling endlessly on about philosophy. Idk I’m just pishing myself, this is just so incredibly Ratio/Aventurine core dndndndxndn

[songforten]

not to be an annoying cunt but as long as everybody's chill about it differences in opinion should be more socially acceptable in fandom spaces. it’s so boring when everyone in a community is supposed to agree on everything.

[bauliya]

i was literally a preteen when the twilight movies were coming out do u know how much i FOUGHT how hard i RESISTED. there were girls in my class exchanging rpatz stickers!! he was EVERYWHERE! my MOM had a crush on him! but i did NOT thirst over that sickly white man when the entire world was on their knees and then on one random weekend at my grown age of 23 i decided to watch the batman and

[is-this-fascism]

imagine if someone said 'Mr. Rogers was gay, and here's why i believe that'

and everyone else was like 'well, maybe, but how can you be so sure? isn't it a bit weird to speculate and fantasize about someone's personal internal world and identity when they can't speak for themself anymore? it's nice to be able to relate to your heros, but what about all these still living and openly gay people you could be looking up to?'

and the original person said 'oh, so you hate gay people? why are you so uncomfortable with the idea of Mr Rogers being gay? i was just joking anyway, but you're a homophobe and your ideas are basically as harmful as conversion therapy'

wouldnt that be a strange world to live in

[chicago-geniza]

Just remembered that Armand met Lestat around the time Kant's Groundwork came out and had the incredibly cursed thought "what if instead of discovering the theater, grimy obsessive scrupulosity-brainworms Armand discovered the categorical imperative"

[omegarodstewart]

in my head i have a dedicated fancast for the men of the symposium and these two are my quintessential alcibiades and socrates…. i desperately need a see an age gap romance film where paul giamatti is continually unfaithful to his beautiful malewife callum turner…. claire denis get on it bitch!!

[lucabyte]

heres your highly requested fluff you fucking animals

[kebriones]

The way Socrates literally says ""People don't stick around because you're too much for them" to Alcibiades in the Alcibiades 1 and the implied "but you'll never be too much for me" ARGHJKTFGHR yeah i get why he fell for him i get it.

[ditoob]

It’s one of those missing Alcibiades days huh

[classicslesbianopinions]

anyone want to stage a reading of the phaedo with me so we can see if that dialogue would really take a full day from dawn to dusk