Platos dialogues

Please will someone summurise this in a way I will understand.

Plato assassinated his teacher, Socrates, by writing down conversations the Socrates allegedly engaged in. In the conversations, Socrates routinely traps his opponents by asking them to choose between two equally plausible alternatives (one of which must be rejected on the basis of some principle). His either/or logic obscures that there is generally an unmentioned third choice that, if mentioned, would cause the entire edifice of Socrates' argument to collapse upon itself.

So its like saying eather I'm right or your wrong?

There's also a lot of stuff in there (tediously so in the Symposium) about how great fancying boys is. Think of him as William Burroughs without the guillotines and mouldy jockstraps.

Originally posted by Amaurote
There's also a lot of stuff in there (tediously so in the Symposium) about how great fancying boys is. Think of him as William Burroughs without the guillotines and mouldy jockstraps.

Socrates knew he was wisest teacher because he knew that he didn't know much, where as the other teachers though that they knew a lot.

Originally posted by Amaurote
There's also a lot of stuff in there (tediously so in the Symposium) about how great fancying boys is. Think of him as William Burroughs without the guillotines and mouldy jockstraps.

Plato always took good care of his slaves.
Today's capitalists could learn from him.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plato%27s_Republic

Originally posted by Wulebgr
His either/or logic obscures that there is generally an unmentioned third choice that, if mentioned, would cause the entire edifice of Socrates' argument to collapse upon itself.

Originally posted by Brother Edwin
Please will someone summurise this in a way I will understand.

Originally posted by bbarr
If you're serious about wanting to understand a Platonic Dialogue, choose one and we can go through it together.

Originally posted by bbarr
If you're serious about wanting to understand a Platonic Dialogue, choose one and we can go through it together.

Originally posted by Bosse de Nage
Generous offer, I'd like to join in. I only have The Republic, something from that?

Originally posted by Nemesio
Count me in. I'm vying to win recongition from Ivanhoe to be Bbarr's bitch.

Nemesio