I LEARNED RECENTLY THAT PLATO WON THE GOLD MEDAL IN THE OLYMPICS FOR WRESTLING THREE TIMES. THIS PUTS A NEW PERSPECTIVE ON THINGS. I ALWAYS IMAGINED PLATO TO BE FRAIL AND MISSHAPEN BUT HE MUST HAVE BEEN FRICKEN RIPPED. I WONDER IF ARISTOTLE EVER FELT ANXIETY ABOUT GETTING PHYSICALLY (I.E. NOT JUST METAPHYSICALLY) DISMANTLED BY PLATO. PLATO WAS PROBABLY PISSED OFF BY AT LEAST A HANDFUL OF QUESTIONS ARISTOTLE ASKED HIM. ARISTOTLE WAS A LITERAL GENIUS TOO. IMAGINE PLATO LECTURING AND WRITING ON A BLACKBOARD AND ARISTOTLE THROWING A COMMENT OUT THERE ABOUT SOME COMPLEX MISSTEP IN PLATO’S LOGIC AND PLATO’S CHALK JUST SNAPS AND ARISTOTLE’S TESTICLES SUCK WAY BACK UP TO WHERE THEY DROPPED FROM, THEN PLATO IN A BLUR APPEARS BESIDE ARISTOTLE SITTING AT HIS DESK AND HE PICKS HIM UP AND SUPLEXES HIS MACEDONIAN ASS.
This needs to be a comic.
given the content of a lot of Plato’s conclusions I wouldn’t be surprised to learn that Plato responded to a lot of reasonable criticisms with “Fight me” and that was the end of it.
We’re not actually sure whether Plato is his real name! Some people speculate that, because Platon means “broad” in Greek, this was actually his wrestling nick name. Basically, it’s like Dwayne Johnson became a famous philosopher and everyone still called him “The Rock”.
Can we have a movie about Plato starring Dwayne Johnson?
You can’t convince me that wouldn’t be the best thing ever.
Plato’s real name was Aristocles (…which is definitely not the name of my current desktop’s harddrive or anything…). Plato was indeed a wrestling nickname. Basically the world’s greatest philosopher is known as “hellah thick brah”.
He also originally wanted to be a poet. He was a poet-athlete, no shit. He first met Socrates because he was going to a temple to offer his great masterwork poem up to the gods. He asked Socrates, well-known by then as a smart guy, to look it over before he offered it up because he wanted the best possible poem to offer the gods. Socrates read it and then started asking Plato questions about it (as was his wont). They got into a long discussion, and eventually Plato rushed away, disgraced because this poem he had been about to offer to the gods was obviously inferior. He returned again later to Socrates with a new poem, asking him to read this revised one. Again, Socrates read it and began asking Plato questions about it. At the end of this discussion Plato tore his poem up and devoted his life to Socrates.
This is also why Plato is the best-known writer of Socrates (there are other dudes who wrote down Socrates’ dialogues! Did you know this? Xenophon is one of the most famous), but Plato was a WRITER before he was a philosopher, and his recordings of Socrates’ words were just so much better written (according to popular opinion) than anyone else’s that that’s the reason we read HIS recordings of Socrates’ conversations and not someone else’s (sorry Xenophon). Plato obviously was a philosopher in his own right as well, but the skilled way which he wrote these philosophical concepts definitely worked in his favor.
On notes of hotness: Plato was generally accepted to be a very handsome and desirable young man. Socrates was old and ugly as fuck (no, like, NOTORIOUSLY ugly, you don’t understand, people CONSTANTLY were commenting on this), but a lot of politicians found him attractive because of his intelligence and the bravery he had shown in wars as a younger man. Famously, Alcibiades, an important politician in Athens, threw himself at Socrates during a symposium (read the whole exchange in Plato’s “Symposium”!), hitting on him and generally just offering his body up to Socrates to do as he pleased. Socrates also had a young wife and VERY young children (like a baby and elementary school aged) when he was sentenced to death via hemlock, and he was nearly 80 years old at the time.
Does. … Does anyone want to know any more interesting facts about Plato? I will tell you all the things.
I totally want to know all your interesting facts about Plato!
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