Well, I lucked out with this one. For my English class this semester we will be assigned Socrates and Aristotle, and Plato is optional. So, I am killing two birds with one stone here!
Before I did some research on this little assignment of mine, I knew that Aristotle (the teacher of Alexander the Great) was the pupil of Plato who was the pupil of Socrates. So I was hoping to see threads of common themes interlaced between the three thinker's writings.
What I did not know was that Socrates did not write anything. He, like Jesus, did not write but spoke and taught on his ideas. It was not until after his death that his student, Plato, wrote his concepts down. This will be a problem for me. Firstly, because Socrates didn't write anything. Secondly, what will I read that represents Plato and not Socrates? For now, I will be reading Apology of Socrates (Socrates's speech on trial) to exhibit his epistemological contribution.
Both interesting writings related to your post that you might find interesting!
ReplyDeletePlato's Paedrus
http://www.units.muohio.edu/technologyandhumanities/plato.htm
Walter Ong's Writing is a Technology that Restructures Thought
http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8&q=Writing+Is+a+Technology+that+Restructures+Thought.%E2%80%9D