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How much do we objectively know about him? I know most people accept the early dialogues as more or less historical accounts but is there any proof that specific events like the apology actually happened? How do we know where to draw the line between Socrates the historical figure and Socrates the character, which is obviously just a fiction by the time you get to The Republic.
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who gives a shit t b h
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>>9401495
We don't objectively know anything about history prior to video. Even then there is still room for distortion.
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Hide stem autists threads etc...
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>>9401502
Maybe objectively is too strong a word but there is plenty of well corroborated history that we can be pretty confident is factual. At least more confident than I am in Plato's writing alone
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>>9401495
Xenophon is considered to be more historically true
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>>9401565
This isn't true. Xenophon wasn't smart enough to give an accurate portrayal of Socrates.
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>objectively
*faint sounds of historians hiding in their closets*
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