• roguetrick
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    311 year ago

    I thought all these stories were fake, but it takes some next level shit to fake not getting a joke about “the only thing I know is I know nothing.”

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        1 year ago

        Well, it was Socrates per Plato. And everything Plato supposedly wrote was supposedly Socrates. Greek philosophy authorship is… dubious.

  • Ð Greıt Þu̇mpkin
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    71 year ago

    Tbf, Plato basically was the ancient Greek equivalent of the podcast musclebro that will occasionally hard right into some VERY concerning ideas about how letting “the wrong people” have a say is what’s wrong with society.

    This is the philosophical lineage that ended with Alexander the Probably Killed by His Own Liver in Vengeance for Years of Endless Drunkardness