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Tragedy is born of myth, not morality. Prometheus and Icarus are tragic heroes. Yet none of the myths in which they appear has anything to do with moral dilemmas. Nor have the greatest Greek tragedies. If Euripides is the most tragic of the Greek playwrights, it is not because he deals with moral conflicts but because he understood that reason cannot be the guide of life.


John Gray


#greek-mythology #morality #socrates #the-death-of-tragedy #tragedy

Socrates: Have you noticed on our journey how often the citizens of this new land remind each other it is a free country? Plato: I have, and think it odd they do this. Socrates: How so, Plato? Plato: It is like reminding a baker he is a baker, or a sculptor he is a sculptor. Socrates: You mean to say if someone is convinced of their trade, they have no need to be reminded. Plato: That is correct. Socrates: I agree. If these citizens were convinced of their freedom, they would not need reminders.


E.A. Bucchianeri


#civil-liberty #free-country #freedom #freedom-of-thought #gadfly

To be afraid of death is only another form of thinking that one is wise when one is not; it is to think that one knows what one does not know. No one knows with regard to death wheather it is not really the greatest blessing that can happen to man; but people dread it as though they were certain it is the greatest evil." -The Last Days of Socrates


Plato


#death

A Socrates in every classroom.


Alfred Whitney Griswold


#every #socrates

As a Roman philosopher, Cicero, said of him a few hundred years later, Socrates 'called philosophy down from the sky and established her in the towns and introduced her into homes and forced her to investigate life, ethics, good and evil.


Jostein Gaarder


#philosophy #socrate #home

The Sophists' paradoxical talk pieces and their public debates were entertainment in 5th century Greece. And in that world, Socrates was an entertainer.


David Antin


#debates #entertainer #entertainment #greece #paradoxical

Wealth does not bring about excellence, but excellence makes wealth and everything else good for men, both individually and collectively.


Socrates


#excellence #plato #socrates #trial #wealth






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