Plato and Socrates the greatest philosophers who ever was conceived; What is your opinions on these great men?

Answer 1

For those who are highly critical of what it was that Plato and Socrates accomplished I would challenge them to try to produce something that will advance science ahead let us say 200, no 100, no 50 years. Most of us sit here at our computers and find it easy to cast stones when we do so little to advance our own community, much less the human race via thought. These men were highly accomplished thinkers of their time and cannot be held accountable for the limitations of their context. While we do consider it foolishness to consider an object slowing because it is tired, they at least noticed it. Who here would have done so had they not been taught it in grade school? Here is another idea, come up with a better system of ethics on you own, or how about developing your own idea of a city-state. As for you Heinz since you mentioned Aristotle, how about you improve on his syllogistic method on your own accord and send that to me huh? Give me a break ladies and gentlemen, when you accomplish a fraction of what these ancient men did give me a call.

Furthermore, was it they themselves who "slowed" progress, or simply succeeding cultures unduely clinging to them? Nevertheless, one cannot discount one's logic because one did not have the telescope or because one did not have the microscope. Bear in mind, good fellows, that it took the ENTIRE HUMAN RACE this long to advance where we are today. I doubt that you can pin it all on two people because you are not where you want to be. If you dislike it get up and do something about it.

Answer 2

Cannot agree that they"delayed the start of science for 2000
years". Thus they were not that great or good(i think).
But there is no denying that they are and were Highly-thought-of;
in fact the mathematician Plato was revered for hundreds of
years,if not longer!
Perhaps we have been too "hung-up" over
great men, idols and possibly heros from history(and,of course,
previous taught history classes)-as at least one 20th century
scholar has taught. So i do at least sympathise with that "held
back science" guy,after all(though differently).
What held back science,i think, was the lack of any genuine
and widespread education,for those 2000years or more;
whether socrates and plato had anything to do with this,i'll
leave up to you guys to investigate.
My opinion on soc and plato is that they could well have been
truly fantastic minds or brains;even the like we only possibly
have never seen yet(although i dont see how anyone could ever
define or say this for definite); but they lived in an enclosed and
small educational world,and they may well have had"trouble"
in co-operating and interacting with even with Yahoo-questions-
and-answers! Not that they may have been too disturbed by
this- anyway, we still have in higher education our own select
"schools", and their answers/conclusions Should be severly
tested against anothers conclusions(with darwinism and
evolutionary theories working on both). So the pair of them could
well have recognised what we do now in education.

Answer 3

Plato and Aristotle screwed up western thinking and delayed the start of science by 2,000 years. No one dared to challenge their stupid concepts. 'Objects slow down because they get tired?' How stupid was that?
We could be traveling to the stars already!
Socrates was a great teacher with great personal integrity but was only reported through other's writings.
In answer to your email:
If you don't even know that the 'object getting tired' thing is totally off, I wouldn't know where to start to explain this to you. Another huge blunder was, there are only 4 elements. Made people stop to look at any other explanations.
All I can say, read science books and it will become clear.

Answer 4

Both are great, but Plato is the best ever. Without him, the history of philosophy would be really diminished. "All of history of philosophy are foot-notes to Plato's work" I believe this quote is by Whitehurst.

Answer 5

They are ancient history. We know better now.

Answer 6

"I just know that I know nothing..."
Socrates

Answer 7

they are my top list

Answer 8

They were gay for each other.
That's my opinion.