Comments on: Thought of the minute: I never realized how much antipathy I have for Plato. http://www.complich8.net/archives/326 complacence is the enemy Mon, 25 Oct 2010 13:22:35 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Jason http://www.complich8.net/archives/326/comment-page-1#comment-1612 Jason Thu, 18 Jan 2007 21:39:49 +0000 http://www.complich8.net/archives/326#comment-1612 I don\'t really care for Gob. I don\’t really care for Gob.

]]> By: KitKat http://www.complich8.net/archives/326/comment-page-1#comment-1354 KitKat Tue, 09 Jan 2007 04:19:34 +0000 http://www.complich8.net/archives/326#comment-1354 Plato always makes me think of Playdough....now if only you had a course in Playdough, I don\'t think you\'d ever get sick of it! Oh, the endless possibilities. Plato always makes me think of Playdough….now if only you had a course in Playdough, I don\’t think you\’d ever get sick of it! Oh, the endless possibilities.

]]> By: complich8 http://www.complich8.net/archives/326/comment-page-1#comment-1349 complich8 Mon, 08 Jan 2007 14:04:29 +0000 http://www.complich8.net/archives/326#comment-1349 see, that's the thing. You say something that amounts to "I'm sick of Plato" and people spring to his defense. Yeah, he was a good philosopher, and yeah, he was influential. But he's also overrated, and is NOT the end-all be-all of philosophy. But really, my antipathy isn't a rational feeling, and there's no reasoning with it. It's just that I'm really getting sick of reading him like he's the end-all be-all greatest philosopher evar. see, that’s the thing. You say something that amounts to “I’m sick of Plato” and people spring to his defense.

Yeah, he was a good philosopher, and yeah, he was influential. But he’s also overrated, and is NOT the end-all be-all of philosophy.

But really, my antipathy isn’t a rational feeling, and there’s no reasoning with it. It’s just that I’m really getting sick of reading him like he’s the end-all be-all greatest philosopher evar.

]]> By: Joel http://www.complich8.net/archives/326/comment-page-1#comment-1348 Joel Mon, 08 Jan 2007 05:43:11 +0000 http://www.complich8.net/archives/326#comment-1348 The allegory of the cave is neat. His demonstration of the Socratic method is good (and even humorous). Most of the rest of the ideas he pushes are, if nothing else, thought-provoking. Nobody really looks at his other theories as legitimate, but they see them as a large stepping stone upon which other philosophy came to be. And his personal pet ideas aside, he had a huge impact on things. This guy founded the Academy. He did good things. So don\'t be too hard on poor ol\' Plato. If nothing else, he knew dialectics were better than debates, which so many of us still haven\'t managed to get through our heads. The allegory of the cave is neat. His demonstration of the Socratic method is good (and even humorous). Most of the rest of the ideas he pushes are, if nothing else, thought-provoking.

Nobody really looks at his other theories as legitimate, but they see them as a large stepping stone upon which other philosophy came to be. And his personal pet ideas aside, he had a huge impact on things. This guy founded the Academy. He did good things.

So don\’t be too hard on poor ol\’ Plato. If nothing else, he knew dialectics were better than debates, which so many of us still haven\’t managed to get through our heads.

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