Socrates Vs. Plato... who wins?

Answer 1

Socrates, for enduring a lifetime with that b itch of a wife he had...Jantipe....

Answer 2

Actually neither. Socrates left no written works for analysis, besides Plato was a student of Socrates' teaching, which may be reflected in Plato's early thinking. Later on, Plato begins to develop his own position independent of Socrates' influence and maybe his thinking.. In many of Plato's dialogues Socrates is a mouthpiece for Plato, but this is not the historical character. In addition, Plato is never involved in the dialogues, he uses other characters, but never himself. So we really don't know Plato's position on the issues under discussion. A comparison or a distinction really can't be made in all fairness.

Answer 3

Was there a competition? Socrates thouhgts are found mainly in Plato's writings although there are a few other writers who also recorded his thoughts. I can't think of any level on which it is recorded that Plato seriously disagreed with Socrates. Plato exceeded Socrates only because he recorded his thoughts for posterity. The more important disagreement is surely between Plato and Aristotle. Plato believed in the forms, Ariostotle would have none of it. Aristotle was the founder of logic and his philosophy was grounded in experience. Both had profound and distinct influence on the Roman Catholic Church as well as the development of Western Thought.

Answer 4

I'm sure Plato was the catcher, if that's what you mean.

Plato never wrote something that didn't involve Socrates.
And no positive theories whatesoever.
All allegory, myth, lack of proof.
Circuitous fallacies to debunk the rhetors.

Plato is the narrator, the secretary, librarian schoolboy.
Socrates' words a fiction, though the man existed.

We never know Socrates,
we only infer that he was how Plato says.

And if Plato has to use a dead person to make his points for him-
then he loses either way.

Answer 5

As Plato was a follower of Socrates, they BOTH win.

Answer 6

Plato. There is no evidence outside of Plato's writings that Socrates was a real person. We don't know for sure if he was invented by Plato as a rhetorical device or was simply a really smart guy who never wrote anything down.

Answer 7

Plato has a higher HP BUT Socrates has a magic shield...hmm..depends on which of them wields the Elfen sword...

Answer 8

Plato always was Socrates's beotch. Nuf said.

Answer 9

Socrates - as a man, a teacher, and a philosopher.

Answer 10

I would go with Plato after reading his allegory of the cave in "The Republic".