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13790916 No.13790916 [Reply] [Original]

Why didnt socrates write any books?

>> No.13790934

>>13790916
He believed in the superiority of the oral tradition over the literary. Read Phaedrus.

>> No.13790942
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>>13790934
K I'll get back to you tomorrow

>> No.13790963

>>13790934
he also enjoyed another kind of oral tradition hihihi

>> No.13790972

>>13790916
he was dyslexic

>> No.13790976

>>13790972
That’s why I don’t write anything down. Spelling is very hard

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>>13790916
Cause writing shit down is for pussies

>> No.13790986

>>13790916
He did but they're lost.

>> No.13790991

>>13790986
What would they be worth if his complete works were found do you think?

>> No.13790993

>>13790972
Jek

>> No.13791020

>>13790991
Assuming they wouldn't just be seized immediately by some governmental body to be studied, translated, and put in a museum, invaluable.

>> No.13791312

Too busy fucking cute boys and talking about his favorite subjects with his best mates and annoying people
What a based life

>> No.13791320

>>13790991
Completely priceless, it would immediately become the most valuable thing on the planet

>> No.13791325

>>13790991
Probably the only thing that would top it is if something that was somehow confirmed to have been written by Jesus was discovered

>> No.13791350

>>13790934
This. And because he knew nothing.

>> No.13792015

>>13790916
He believed that the people that would read his books wouldn't truly understand his reasoning. That they would dogmatically quote from text and if they were ever challenged by someone else to explain these ideas they could not do so. He believed that actually memorizing certain arguments and the rationale behind them would lead to knowledge and that a reader would only have the appearance of having said knowledge.

>> No.13792103

>>13790916
The gadfly was the biggest troll in human history. He went around trying to make people think he was wise when he himself never thought himself as such, at least if you believe the writings of his contemporaries.

The fact that he was parodied by comedians like Aristophanes should be a dead give away that at least some people could tell Socrates was just fucking with people for his own enjoyment.

>> No.13793842

>>13790916
he knew