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14607444 No.14607444 [Reply] [Original]

if philosophers throughout history served as jury at Socrates' trial, which would have voted to put him to death?

>> No.14607457

>>14607444
Nietzsche

>> No.14607466

No one.

>> No.14607477

>>14607444
Everyone unanimously would vote to spare him and grant him his "free meals" request.

Except Nietzsche. He would sperg out about something something the will to live ressentiment slave morality and the leave the council in tears.

>> No.14607514

>>14607477
Then go hug a horse and claim that he understands its suffering from being whipped, then collapse into a potato. Poor bastard.

>> No.14607523

>>14607444
Undermining old certainties without an alternative system to replace them is a genuine moral danger. Socrates could do nothing but offer a negative critique. "Knowing you know nothing" gives the whole game away.

>> No.14607575

>>14607523
Well Plato did offer the alternative after a few years. It doesn't mean they had to kill him in the meantime.

>> No.14607722

>>14607523
Socrates didn't literally think that he didn't knew anything, that motto was just part of his method of arguing by using questions, trying to make his opponent to arrive at the correct conclusions on his own by asking him the right questions instead of making the positive claims himself. Socrates in fact had very strong opinions about things.

>> No.14607737

>>14607444
Socrates is basically philosophy's Jesus

>> No.14607976

>>14607722
What are the correct conclusions? Why do the most socratic of the dialogues always end in aporia?

>> No.14608480

>>14607976
>most
>what is Philebus, Phaedrus, Timaeus, Republic, Sophist, Statesman, Phaedo, Crito, Laws
If we count pages these are over 2/3s of all of Plato. The shorter they are the more aporetic they usually are.
But I can only really think of Protagoras and Euthyphro that are truly open ended. Perhaps Meno.