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Because Socrates is just someone Plato made up. He didn't actually exist.

>>10687032
Plato was the original posting this on reddit fag

>>10687053
How do we even know Plato existed?

>>10687032
Cuz Plato was a nerd

Writing stuff down was considered lowly. Memory was emphasized. We’re lucky we got what we have desu.

I think it was in phaedrus where he said "by the dog of Egypt, writing make your memory shit" or something along those lines.

>>10687067
Because Aristotle told us.

>>10687053
So who made up Plato?

>>10687101
And how do we know Aristotle didn't invent Plato?

And how do we that Aristotle existed?

>>10687107
Because Aristotle wasn't real

Socrates was too busy pumping weights and fucking wenches

>>10687115

>>10687116
>fucking wenchs
you mean young men?

>>10687032
Plato never existed. Socrates invented him and that whole trial

>>10687101
Aristotle's students did*. We have absolutely no original works of Aristotle remaining.

>>10687107
Because Alexander the Great told us.

>>10687134
no Socrates was straight he didn't even fuck Alcibiades

>>10687032
Socrates thought writing things down ruined memory.

>>10687032
Probably because he was a pseud bitch who deserved to die.

How can Greeks even compete?

>>10687173
Socrates thought nothing because he didn't exist

>>10687104
Aristotle

>>10687291
Aristotle isn't real.

>>10687032
Socrates wasn’t just a fictional character of Plato’s. Plato actually disguised himself as Socrates because Plato was considered too young to hold any real wisdom at that time, but he knew someone had to take down the pesky Sophists, so he became the world’s first and only philosophical superhero. Ever notice Plato never appears in any of the dialogues with Socrates? In fact the trial and execution were staged by associates of Plato’s, his accusers have been proven to have been family friends of Plato, being a member of the aristocratic class. Notice that Plato is conveniently sick during the Apology...
>>10687139
Filtered.

>>10687343
>Ever notice Plato never appears in any of the dialogues with Socrates?

Seriously why is this?

>>10687448
Because he's writing down what Socrates said, not him.

>>10687448
the dialogues are fictions... there's no reason for plato to put himself into them if it's supposed to be about the ideas socrates was speaking on.
maybe he thought putting himself in would take away from the points socrates made in them.

>>10687343
>Notice that Plato is conveniently sick during the Apology.
That always struck me as odd.