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Pretty uncharacteristic quote for him considering how he pretty much died for the kids! There was one group of people Socrates surely had a problem with, and i
by beepbooptheory 4y ago
Pretty uncharacteristic quote for him considering how he pretty much died for the kids! There was one group of people Socrates surely had a problem with, and it was not "insolent children." No offense, but it would be people like you he would hate these days, those that appeal to ambiguous authority and precedence to argue that static values override actual interrogation in the present.
- trgn 4y agoFor sure. At the same time, reading Socrates, he comes across as a pompous know-it-all, the sort you wouldn't want to spend an evening with. When adolescents take on that hectoring attitude, it's kinda cute and adorable, look at Young Jimmy there, such an idealistic kid, and going to college! On an adult man it's just exhausting. Anyway, but yeah, very principled man, until death, commendable really.
- googlryas 4y agoHe only comes across that way because he really did know it all relative to his peers. The things he talks about may be obvious now exactly because of him, but weren't in his day.
- beepbooptheory 4y agoThere is a reason they called him a gadfly!