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I heard it was because some of his students rebelled against the government, took over and ended up acting as tyrants for a certain amount of time. So he kind o
by CM30 11y ago
I heard it was because some of his students rebelled against the government, took over and ended up acting as tyrants for a certain amount of time. So he kind of got the blame for their actions, as the one who 'inspired' them.
- igravious 11y agoI imagine he doesn't get called a gadfly for nothing. The only Platonic dialogue I can stand is The Symposium because Socrates' method of interrogation is elsewhere too annoying†. Maybe instead of "don't feed the trolls" we should say "don't feed the gadflies". † Having said that, I recently got out of the library Heyting's _Intuitionism: An Introduction_ and it's in fictional dialogue format initially which irritated me no end. (So maybe it's not Socrates but the form!) I guess I don't appreciate it as a teaching method but I can see why it is used especially if otherwise there would be a lot of back-and-forth question-response type segments in the text. Not a fan :)