Socrates

The scholars was gay.

Socrates, all of them niggas was gay.

No, nobody, because we didn't have-

He molested little boys.

That's where it came from.

It came from the dialogues of Socrates.

That's what true dialogue is.

And that's what Pope St. John, or Pope St. Paul VI, in his encyclical Ecclesiam Suam, he said in order to convert them We have to talk with them.

There are passages in Plato, among those which illustrate the scientific side of his mind, where he seems clearly aware of this.

The most noteworthy is the one in which Socrates, as a young man, is explaining the theory of ideas to Parmenides.

After Socrates has explained that there is an idea of the good, but not of such things as hair and mud and dirt, Parmenides advises him not to despise even the meanest things, and this advice shows the genuine scientific temper.

It is with this impartial temper that the mystic's apparent insight into a higher reality and a hidden good has to be combined if philosophy is to realize its greatest possibilities.

And it is failure in this respect that has made so much of idealistic philosophy thin, lifeless, and insubstantial.

In this capricious world, nothing is more capricious than posthumous fame.

One of the most notable examples of posterity's lack of judgment is the Eleatic Zeno.

This man, who may be regarded as the founder of the philosophy of infinity, appears in Plato's Parmenides in the privileged position of instructor to Socrates.

Rather than just simply sitting there and writing down, you should do this because he has them argue and debate.

Which, of course, he would have gotten from, you know, Socrates.

But in this case, he gets the timing on the nose.

Yeah.

Week one.

Socrates comes up to your stand.

He looks at your crystals and calls you a goddamn artist.

Oh, that's pretty nice of Socrates.

He seems like a chill guy.

Bro knows good crystal drugs whenever he sees them.

For the first time, Socrates didn't hate.

He asks if he can be your cook partner.

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You talk in your work about the Socrates challenge.

I know Socrates famously said that cities will never have rest from their evils until philosophers are kings.

And then you point out that in a democracy, we are effectively kings and princes because the principle of our societies is of the people, for the people, by the people.

So what are the personal precepts you endorse and how can we use them?

The fables were in the first instance only narrated by Aesop and for a long time were handed down by the uncertain channel of oral tradition.

Socrates is mentioned by Plato as having employed his time while in prison awaiting the return of the sacred ship from Delphos, which was to be the signal of his death, in turning some of these fables into verse, but he thus versified only such as he remembered.

Demetrius Valerius, a philosopher at Athens around 300 BC, is said to have made the first collection of these fables.

Phaedrus, a slave by birth or by subsequent misfortune and admitted by Augustus to the honors of a freed man, imitated many of these fables in Latin iambics about the commencement of the Christian era.

I love philosophy.

I had too much Socrates.

I'm more comfortable saying I don't know.

So I'm an agnostic.

They're the nice guys on business.

I was thinking of the immortal words of Socrates, who said, The nice guys drank what? Call it revisionist history.

Call it desecration.

But people all over the country are pulling down the statues of the nice guys on business.