-Round. Flat. Round. Flat. Round, like you inflated head. Flat, like these anachronistic books we’re holding! Socrates and Plato could never agree on the basics…
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That’s not Socrates…it’s Plato on the left and Aristotle on the right. Socrates was Plato’s mentor, but he is not shown in Raphael’s School of Athens.
Quite funny caption though.
UMMM…… Except that the painting is of Plato and Aristotle, not Socrates.
Both comments are correct; that’s Plato and Aristotle. However, Socrates is in the large fresco that this is a detail of : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_School_of_Athens Scroll down and you’ll see who’s who.
And that they’re arguing about where we can find ultimate actuality (the “forms”): in some separate realm “above,” or in the world around us.
Socrates is shown elsewhere in Raphael’s fresco, talking to Alcibiades.
Glad I’m not the only über-nerd needing to call the captioner out…
But the anachronistic book part is genius.
“Yes, Socrates himself is particularly missed…”
A lovely little thinker but a bugger when he’s pissed
mainly because plato kept talking to aristotle rather than socrates
Wow. All this time, and not once have I ever noticed that.
Funk Plato. My favorite philosopher is Diogenes. Living in a tub FTW <3