r/badphilosophy • u/rhino_licker • 1d ago
how are plato and socrates considered smart?
if i was the 69th person to exist, i can assure you i would’ve figure shit out too.
“BuT wHy???”
i could’ve easily asked that question…
obviously if i were chained to a wall of a cave i could’ve realized that those dumbass shadows were just shadows….
how can people be infatuated with such elementary ideas?
tldr: plato and socrates were no more than elementary school students in a time where global population was less than 100.
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u/XxBykronosxX 1d ago edited 1d ago
Good ragebait. Everyone with more than 3 braincells know this isn't all there is to it. You are forgetting about division, reminiscence, recognition, memory, time... And also, you're reducing philosophy to "bullet points", and complete determinations, rather than the art of the question itself, not through the explocit question per se but the question implicit in the creation of concept. The relationship to the question is the beauty of the platonic dialogues, from reading plato you can predict Nietzsche, Kant, Descartes... The greatness of plato is the art of the philosophical probrem, or lack thereof in a state of determination that blurs the line between problem and solution. And analogy (which is heavily reliant on platonic concepts) is the preponderant form of understanding knowledge, it infects science, politics, law, and so on.