Socrates

My dear MS Beth Taylor, it is good that you think well of Socrates, but just what do you think of Saccas?

He was reportedly the teacher of the great Neo-Platonist! It is not strange that there reportedly existed 1. Plato, then 2. Plotinus, and then 3. Plethon? And one of the above was taught by another famous person with the name Socrates, and another by Saccas!

Please read the earlier posts for more information.

And, in case you do not do the slightest to find out what I am speaking of, then you might well read this site;

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ammonius_Saccas

Regards,

Edited by opuslola - 10-Jul-2011 at 20:07

Thanks for the recommendation! I will attempt to read it.

Did you read every post in this thread before posting?

If not, you might well do so.

Regards,

Sorry if I appear so Hunter. I had no intention of appearing so. I thought I was only giving a new comer some good advice.

Regards,

I wouldn't say he was a genius, but he was quite good. I think that Socrates is the biggest enigma in history of philosophy, because we don't have anything from him really, what we have are impressions of others, and Plato using his name to sell his own ideas.

Thank you so much, CV!

If he had ben less condescending then he wouldn't have been the famous socrates but instead would've been just your typical philosopher. The way he acted when he was on trial is what I regard as the highlight of his career because it's when he let it all out and gave the ,ost insight into the world and the soul.

"The highest wisdom - to distinguish between good and evil" (С). The modern world would be much more primitive, without Socrates. Socrates is a source of intellectual reflection (from Lat. - Reflexio).