So, Socrates was told by an Oracle he was the wisest of all men

philosophy BTFO

How can Greekfags ever recover?

>>9469943
It was a subtle way to call everyone a brainlet. He told everyone he knew nothing and btfo out of everyone so when he told them what the Oracle said they would kys themselves.

>>9469943
>ITT: kids and brainlets who didn't get it

>>9469943
What if everything is nothing and he is saying that he knows "nothing" which, in effect, is code for saying that he knows everything?

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>>9470574
What if you're a fag?

>>9470574
Honestly, I think he's just saying he "knows nothing" in the sense that he can identify the concept of "nothing," i.e., he knows when someone is bullshitting him. Nobody could know everything.

Bear in mind we are talking about the words of a fictional character created by Plato.

>>9470274
It can't. We'd better consider a better place to start with than the Greeks.

>>9469943

Pseud

>>9470486

Pseud

>>9470574

Pseud

>>9469943
I bet that old faggot would've voted for Hillary and probably been a LGTBQ as well. What a fucking kek

>>9470593
He probably would've just killed himself if he lived in the present day desu

It was basically him calling out the pseuds of his day, challenging people to admit how little they really know.

>>9470593
How little you understood Plato, then.

>>9470604
The only sensible answer ITT. Where the sophists were busy engineering codes for interpreting, complincating, and minsunderstanding reality, Socrates was saying hey man the only truth I am certain of is I don't know anytheng for cerstain and I should approach each problem with fresh eyes and a willingness to accept defeat. He zen'd the fuck out of some buttmad Greeks.

get a job

>>9470601
He would have done the exact thing he did in Athens here, and probably get the same treatment.

>>9470593
>and probably been a LGTBQ
PROBABLY?

Anon, he spends a considerable amount of time shitting on straight people.

>>9469943
Whenever I read about him, I feel like Socrates never said what he really thought. He only implied and showed off his cleverness.
Which, I suppose, isn't too bad a way to live life because it got him laid with Alcibiades who was basically the most desired boy in Athens.

>>9469943
Socrates was not told by the oracle. An acquaintance of Socrates was, who then relayed the story to him.

Further, Socrates doesn't understand what it meant until he visits and talks to many people he believes to be wiser than himself,and only then comes to that conclusion when he sees their ignorance.

He literally says all this in the Apology, which you would know if you had read it.

>>9470584
Please read Plato and Aristophanes before posting again.
>>9471209
Please read Plato before posting again.

'my dick bigger than yours' somehow abrupts the socrateanirony into the supermyasmallsoul.
nigga, don't make me write it all again.

>>9471228
No.

>>9469943
If you weren't such a fucking pseud, you would know that that quote isn't referring to all fields of knowledge, but exclusively to the cosmological philosophy. This is because all presocratics were interested in determining the cause of the universe and Socrates, after initially being interested in them, called on their bullshit because their statements were neither provable nor relevant to the life of the individual man. He instead preached to do a introspection to achieve a personal virtue.

I thought this was some babby's tier facts for crying out loud.

>>9470733

Dubs confirm.

Modern day Socrates would try and preach the examined life, and modern day youth would ignore him. Or worse yet, beat him, steal from him. He might manage to get a few followers but they'd be only a few.

>>9471227

Its funny how many people want to shit on Socrates but have never read a single word of the Greeks.

Like holy shit enjoy your ignorance but do it on some other board.

>>9471248
It is lol, we just have sub100 IQ retards, and a lot of them. I don't know why they came here, but they seem intent on making threads about the Greeks having no understanding of them.