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Oi, /lit/! /b/yard here, we need you to settle an argument. Who's better; Socrates, Aristotle or Plato?

>> No.3652187 [DELETED] 

please keep babby level questions on /b/

i'd say socrates tho. actually plato

>> No.3652184

I go in for Aristophanes, personally.

>> No.3652191

They all have their respective merits. /thread

>> No.3652192

>>3652187
Where does Hesiod figure into the rankings?

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Not pictured: the best of the three.

>> No.3652337

Plato

>> No.3652346

None, they're all degenerates. Read presocratics, worship the Sein.

>> No.3652361

/lit/ only likes the Sophists.

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>>3652346
What is Sein?

>> No.3652381

>>3652369
Being. Guy must have been reading Heidegger.

>> No.3652397

>>3652381
Thanks boss

>> No.3652459

Parmenides is better than all other Greek philosophers.
However, if I needed to choose between the three, probably Aristotle.

>> No.3652482

Plato by far.

>> No.3652503

>>3652184
My Frogbrother!

>> No.3652507

Plato ist langweilig.

>> No.3652535

Socrates didn't exist

Plato

>> No.3652558

>>3652535

He existed, it's just that he and Plato were probably almost identical in belief.

>> No.3652564

Socrates

Diogenes > all tho

>> No.3652578

Obviously Socrates

>> No.3652588

>>3652564
>Diogenes

lawlz so edgy

>> No.3652594

plato
only because i hate democracy

>> No.3652600

>>3652174

Socrates and Plato are the same person for all intents and purposes.
Plato's better imho

>>3652192
hesiod doesn't figure into philosopher-rankings at all because he's a Poet. Works and days and the Theogony definitely blow the "Phaedrus" and "Metapoetics" out of the water in terms of enjoyment you get from reading them.

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3652605

Heraclitus, bitches.

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>>3652605

Second thought, Zhuangzi beats them all. Different continent, though.

>> No.3652612

>>3652600
socrates makes far less ridiculous claims supported by useless logic than Plato - he was just a wiseman who question everything - he wasn't that into philosophies, just philosophical systems, philosophy for its own sake.

>> No.3652620

>>3652612

>implying you know anymore about him than anyone else, just by reading the sources that everybody else relies upon: Plato, Xenophon, and Aristophanes for the most part.

>> No.3652634

Aristotle obviously. His impact has been the greatest.

>> No.3652642

Socrates. He actually uses reason to critically analyze beliefs, not build them.

>> No.3652671

>>3652642
>implying be a faggot critic is better than someone who actually creates

JIDF plz go

>> No.3652680

socrates himself was permanently pissed

>> No.3652802

>>3652634
>measuring people by their impact

>> No.3652823

>>3652612

that may or may not be true... Socrates says some outright ludicrous shit about the nature of the soul in the Phaedrus. as far as "rankings" go though, wouldn't you say that the two are virtually indistinguishable, considering that we find a lot of plato's own thoughts mixed into records where socrates supposedly speaks?