Wednesday, February 9, 2011

A Topic for Debate

After reading Foucault's "Parrhesia and Public Life: the Cynics" where Dio Chrysostom described certain dialogues between Diogenes and Alexander in a fashion similar, but a tad bit different than the Socratic method, I posed the question to Brian Samuel whether he preferred Diogenes to Socrates. Regardless of who you are in discussion with, I sense that most would wind up feeling like a jackass in some degree, but I want to ask the class who they would prefer to be in discussion with, Socrates or Diogenes? My opinion switches whenever I think about each man and their ways, but I think I might have to go with Socrates because he seems to be less of an asshole.

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