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Perhaps Socrates was not in fact wise….But perhaps he would have told you that.
by drooby 5y ago
Perhaps Socrates was not in fact wise….But perhaps he would have told you that.
- programmarchy 5y agoHe did tell us that, but nobody believed him!
- xyzzy21 5y agoHe was literally "stoic" which is a wisdom that you can't change most things in the world so you survive as best you can and if you can't you accept that you can't control when your life ends either. If people still read the Classics, this would be widely known as table-stakes.
- kritiko 5y agoSocrates was not a stoic. Stoicism was founded by Zeno of Citium roughly 100 years after Socrates’ death.