/lit/ - Literature

>>18372127
the reason why Plato's works transcend this limitation of normal writing is that the Dialogue form and Aporia begets this, he in a way trolled humanity by not giving the answers to the highest question (although Damascius will show you how he did):

SOCRATES: By making the point that it is through discourse that the same
thing flits around, becoming one and many in all sorts of ways, in whatever
it may be that is said at any time, both long ago and now. And this will
never come to an end, nor has it just begun, but it seems to me that this
is an “immortal and ageless” condition that comes to us with discourse.
Whoever among the young first gets a taste of it is as pleased as if he had
found a treasure of wisdom. He is quite beside himself with pleasure and
revels in moving every statement, now turning it to one side and rolling
it all up into one, then again unrolling it and dividing it up.

His dialogues almost asks one to do this^