Isn't Socrates somewhat irrelevant compared to Plato

kinda

>>2076260
>Isn't Plato somewhat irrelevant compared to Socrates and Aristotle?

Sort of. He's the symbolic figurehead of western mythology, his trial and conviction is basically the creation myth of what would be the face of the western philosophical tradition.

Personally I agree with Nietzsche that he fucked everything up.

>>2077576
of western philosophy, not mythology

If you read behind the lines, Socrates is actually the father of Cynic Philosophy through Antisthenes, not Platonic/Aristotelian.

Plato was a student of Socrates, sure, but all of Plato's metaphysical conceits were most likely Plato's

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>>2077576
>I agree with Nietzsche

>>2078225
Yeah, how silly of me, agreeing with one of the most influential philosophers of the last thousand years. I should find my wisdom solely in the Bible.

>>2080524
Feeding the fedora troll. Why?

>>2076260
How could he be irrelevant when he was a teacher and inspiration for the other two you listed?
>feeding the philosphy troll why

>>2076260
He was singlehandedly responsible for western philosophy transforming into an ethics-based discipline, instead of continuing down the road of natural science and metaphysics like his predecessors.

>>2080589
>Feeding the fedora troll. Why?

To bump the thread.

>>2080524
Nietzsche's philosophy pales in comparison with Kierkegaard. Your denial of God is not humorous.

>>2081496
Christian existentialism is contradictory and stupid. If there is a God, there's no nihilism to overcome. If there is no God, you're just refusing to own up to your own freedom by subscribing to this fixed notion.

Only because everything we know about him has been transmitted through Plato, Xenophon, or Aristotle.

Socrates was against writing, so he didn't write. As such, we know little about him comparative to Plato.