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[lotesse]

A meme where you draw a pig and it tells you about your personality!

...I am way too easily amused. But it's exam week and I'm tired and also? Plato stinks.

Do the pig thing, baby: http://drawapig.desktopcreatures.com/gallery/large.asp?id=970151&p=0&hof=1&q=personality+test

Comments

[lotesse]

Klein was better--certainly a better scholar.

Yes, but what if Plato wasn't being sarcastic? There's nothin definitive in the text, other than the fact that the things that he says are totally awful. Eep.

[rose-sous-globe.livejournal.com]

Meh, I take Socrates' previous sarcasm as evidence enough for me. Like saying in a Monty-Pythonian pepperpot voice to Meno, "You are a pretty boy, aren't you? Yes you are! You are a pretty boy!"

Also the fact that the state was a model of a person, not a state per se. The sarcasm seems to come in because of Glaucon, who after Socrates has described a perfect little farming state, insists upon 'relishes.'

I don't think Plato was so stupid as to think human beings would actually operate in the way he specified as a group.