Do you think Plato would have been able to Answer most of these mass-education philosophy questions(!)?

Question

Plato,whose work was studied for 100's if not 1000's

of years.

Answer 1

Probably not, but it wouldn't be his fault.

Plato classically worked with people via the "dialectic" or through conversations that operated in an *extended* Question and Answer format. Meaning he'd start on one Question and end up taking it to email just so he could keep going and *open up* the dialogue, demonstrate his reasoning, etc. And that's at *best*.

At worst, he'd misunderstand the Community Guidelines here--as many do--and get repeated Violation Notices for breaking the "no chatting rule" here.

Sorry to say it. -_- But there it is. Plato's methodology is just not really compatible with Yahoo Answers....or indeed, much of the internet for that matter. Most folks just don't have the patience to even follow someone *like me* who types in reasonably complete sentences most of the time. Asking them to engage in a full Platonic dialogue would quickly degenerate into people barking insults at each other in various forms of a) Ebonics, b) SMS-isms, or c) this "lolcats" speech I've heard of recently. It would get that bad, that quickly.

Thanks for your time though. ^_^

Answer 2

Ha! Plato would have more questions than answers. He would rather not be here but face-to-face, a symposium where everyone is participating. That's a real Q & A forum. Not the internet.

Answer 3

its not certain but he seem like good candidate for it, but maybe not by himself though