>Socrates once again interrupted the conversation to praise Alcibiades’s beautiful, youthful physique
We need an illustrated Symposium to make sense of it.
>actually this guy burst in and I totally btfo him with my Socratic reasoning then everyone clapped
What do you mean by "praise"? it could be a slight jest to appeal to his vanity and then lil bro him intellectually so hard in front of everyone that it made him betray Athens.
>>25332307>he started crying about how I never gave him a little reacharound. Probably pissed himself a little too.
It was never about that fat balding bastard! It was another man! Uugh!
Why did Plato even choose the dialogue as the format to discuss philosophy. Very weird. Don't care what sophists did.
>>25332278>yeah bro check this dialogue in which greeks praise gayness>look inside>it's actually about pedophilia
>>25332397Four main reasons. To make protreptic cases for philosophy that would be charming to potential students; to present the activity of philosophizing as respectable to reasonable non-philosophers; to provoke students into working out further the arguments present, the arguments implicit, and the arguments not made at all; and to protect himself politically with plausible deniability since philosophy, as study of nature, was suspect to the many as atheistic (this is explicitly said to be the attitude of the many in the Apology and Laws).
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>>25332397Well, it turns me on and keeps me engaged in the conversation and its hidden meanings. What more could you want?Only jealous girls would complain.
>>25332278I thought that post-Socrates speech part was very entertaining. Plato writes good banter in general. >>25332397The Socratic method of extracting knowledge from others as opposed to just telling them, only really works in speech, so it makes sense that that’s what he chose.
>>25332419You dont have a problem with this lolicon website, so why is that a problem? Hypocrite much?
>>25332419>ALCIBIADES WAS ONLY 17 YEARS AND 11 MONTHS OLD WHEN YOU REFUSED TO SLEEP WITH HIM YOU CREEPY OLD FUCK
>>25332913>You dont have a problem with this lolicon websiteSays who? Imbecile.
>>25332488this fucking comic
What would you do if Socrates offered to tutor your son?
>>25332488Post the other one.
>>25332397In addition to what the other anons said, it was to to illustrate that none of the conclusions were solid, but that didn't stop people from dogmatizing them.
>>25333434I would gladly accept but I would try to find him a secondary tutor. Someone's going to anally penetrate that boy and it ain't going to be me!
