I've decided to do a sort of re-mix on the earlier piece which, just in case, you'd better read first to make sense of this one.... but with a somewhat different character in place of our hero. I again will omit the philosopher's rambling and leave us with the responses of the other.
The Not So Straight Man & the Platonic Dialogue
'I don't see that at all.'
'This sounds ridiculous.'
'Could you repeat that. I can't make head nor tail of it.'
'I don't know what you're asking me.'
‘Shadows?'
'Wait a minute, my good man. You'll have to go back over all of that again.'
'Speak up will you.'
'No, I still can't understand a word of it.'
'No, I couldn't agree with that.'
'Go back over that last bit. You lost me... No, before that bit about the fire.'
'How do you make that out?'
'You're making even less sense now.'
'You can't be serious. He'd be off over the hill.'
'He'd be gone I tell you.'
'No, no. He'd vanish as fast as he could and that would be the last you'd see of him.'
'Bullshit.'
"Go way and get a job for god sake."
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Had there been more interlocutors like your friend available in fifth century athens we might in the west have been saved that terribly bad trip Plato sent us all on for the last 2.5+ millennia. Socrates himself could have lived out his days with his (apparently) young and beatiful wife and worked away as a stonemason or whatever he was meant to be (friends and colleagues would have regarded him I'm sure as someone with a bit of a tendency to "go on a bit" and early learnt the wisdom of agreeing with the mad bastard over looking for proof -- which could sort of pass as another wise philosophical saying for your series, i.e. "agree with mad bastards rather than looking for proof"
I don't really know enough about philosophy to know about the bad trip but I'm presuming you mean Plato was one of the main men in prmoting a divided schizophrenic view of reality that has proven so popular.
Just so.
he's also i think one of the principle architects of a metaphysics of 'being', which is everywhere like a bad smell in the West. You only have to compare it with the metaphysics of 'becoming' in Zen Buddhism & Taoism (and Heraclitus) to see how different things would have been if some Spartan had hacked his head off.
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