![]() ![]() In fact, apart from defining the nature of philosophy, one of the most urgent tasks that Plato has to deal with in his dialogues is making a defence of philosophy as the best way of life, depicting it as the most sensible and natural. that it is caused by the wrong opinions of those who are not philosophers. He suggested that the philosopher's strangeness is not due to a real deviation from the behaviour that, by nature, is most suitable for humans, but the opposite, i.e. proposal, the Academic gave continuity to the image of the philosopher as a crazy person. Regarding his thinking and his practical. Those who devote themselves to philosophy are stigmatized as odd people, as many classical texts show. As it constitutes a novelty within the polis, it is not just regarded with suspicion from its very beginning, but it is also the target of severe criticism. SOCRATES: O that we were wise, Ion, and that you could truly call us so but you rhapsodes and actors, and the poets whose verses you sing, are wise whereas I am a common man, who only speak the truth. Philosophy is an historical product, which is definitively consolidated with Plato and Aristotle. ION: Yes, indeed, Socrates I very much wish that you would: for I love to hear you wise men talk. ![]()
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