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Subject: Was Socrates a real person?

I thought he was real but others say he was made up. Who can prove to me that Socrates was real?

please elaborate!

  • 11.29.2012 8:43 PM PDT

Break down, every single one of you.

Socrates was a Greek philosopher. If you want to know more, look him up in Wikipedia.

  • 11.29.2012 8:44 PM PDT

"There's a very fine line between not listening, and not caring. I'd like to think that I walk that line every day."

If there were factual proof, I don't think the question would have ever been asked.

That said, I for one think he existed.

[Edited on 11.29.2012 8:45 PM PST]

  • 11.29.2012 8:45 PM PDT

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

  • 11.29.2012 8:45 PM PDT
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Inappropriate. Went a little to far with the butt hole tearing.

Any proof I could possibly drum up would just be some historian's word.

I'm too lazy.

  • 11.29.2012 8:45 PM PDT


Posted by: Puma Knight
Socrates was a Greek philosopher. If you want to know more, look him up in Wikipedia.
Well others say that he was made up by Plato to give more meaning to his work. Since many accounts of his life are second hand people say they are not reliable if not even historically true.

  • 11.29.2012 8:47 PM PDT

Signatures are for little kids.

He better have been real, I bought his skeleton on EBay.

  • 11.29.2012 8:48 PM PDT


Posted by: Godshatter
He better have been real, I bought his skeleton on EBay.
You may have been gipped buddy.

  • 11.29.2012 8:50 PM PDT

He never wrote anything. His student, Plato, only wrote about him.

  • 11.29.2012 9:02 PM PDT

Posted by: AngryBrute1
Oh yeah, since somebody does not believe what YOU believe; that makes us vapid...
I cannot grasp that what you call "Something happened to nothing, and that nothing became something, and it was smaller than than a period."

Well I take into account the many people who have mentioned Socrates in ancient texts, and the stuff accredited to him, and therefore do conclude he was a real person who lived thousands of years ago.

  • 11.29.2012 9:05 PM PDT
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He was in the Bill and Ted movies, so of course he's real.

  • 11.29.2012 9:09 PM PDT

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Posted by: Puma Knight
Socrates was a Greek philosopher. If you want to know more, look him up in Wikipedia.

  • 11.29.2012 9:14 PM PDT
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  • 11.30.2012 11:33 AM PDT

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Ancient texts from his student Plato; Aristophanes and Xenophanes suggest that he was a real person, which is most likely.

  • 11.30.2012 12:07 PM PDT
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I don't know.

All we know of him are from books written by others (Plato being the most famous). How do we know that he actually existed rather than being a fictional character used to explain Plato's philosophical ideas? We do not.

But I guess because Aristotle said "I will not allow the Athenians to sin twice against philosophy" when he fled, clearly referencing Socrates, it can be assumed that he believed him to be a real person.

As Aristotle was the student of Plato and Plato supposedly the student of Socrates, it is unlikely that Aristotle would have thought him a real person (as he clearly did) if he in fact was not.

  • 11.30.2012 12:13 PM PDT
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I understand nothing because my life is a conspiracy.


Posted by: Puma Knight
Socrates was a Greek philosopher. If you want to know more, look him up in Wikipedia.

  • 11.30.2012 12:14 PM PDT

Why must we go after EVERY SINGLE CONSPIRACY?

Yes, he was real. I time traveled, I met him, I told him that you didn't believe that he was real, and he told me to slap you.

So, be ready. Gonna phase thru your screen.

  • 11.30.2012 12:19 PM PDT

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Socrates was actually a politician involved in declaring independance from Great Britain from what was known as the original thirteen colonies. Back then history books taught children that Socrates was actually a god sent back in time to become a philosopher but in actually he was born in 1719. It all had to do with brainwashing.

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  • 11.30.2012 12:22 PM PDT

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A slight ‘’incident’’ has occurred in the forum. Me and Random have both been banned by myself. Which is annoying? Hopefully this is fixable? PLZ? Random is becoming angry.

All men are mortal.
Socrates is a man.
Therefore Socrates is mortal.

I learnt it in Law School, it must be true.

Syllogistic reasoning is fun.

  • 11.30.2012 12:31 PM PDT