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Anonymous Tue Oct 20 00:11:10 2020 No.16614622 [Reply] [Original]

Did this guy have any ideas of his own or was he just Socrates' penman?

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 20 00:11:56 2020 No.16614626 Yes, read a book.

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 20 00:15:03 2020 No.16614641 >>16614622 The Laws and the Epistles

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 20 00:16:30 2020 No.16614649 >>16614622 What? Most of the ideas in his dialogues are his own. He includes Socrates so much as more of a way to memorialize and pay respect to his teacher than a way to record the guy's philosophy

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 20 00:30:50 2020 No.16614690 >>16614622 Early dialogues are assumed to be Socrates' thoughts. In other dialogues, Plato is thought to be using Socrates as the vehicle for his own thoughts.

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 20 00:39:21 2020 No.16614725 >>16614690 You can tell because the earlier dialogues line up more with Xenophon's account of him.

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 20 03:17:57 2020 No.16615290 >>16614690 >>16614725 What are the clearly Socrates-based dialogues and what are the ones where Plato is clearly advancing his own agenda?

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 20 03:21:11 2020 No.16615302 >>16615290 Lysis, Charmides, Apology, Crito are all Socrates.

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 20 04:32:17 2020 No.16615502 Socrates is Plato's fabrication. An urban legend, he never existed.

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 20 04:41:55 2020 No.16615530 >>16615502 what about xenophon?

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 20 04:46:37 2020 No.16615550 File: 19 KB, 500x590, Hypercube_Brain.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>16615502 Greece never existed. It was invented by the Romans.

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 20 04:48:17 2020 No.16615557 >>16615290 Anything where it's "how do you know" and it ends with aporia is Socrates.