/lit/ - Literature

>>23341696
well... today he is used, especially by high-school teachers wallowing in hysteria, as an example
meanwhile, in my opinion, Plato has used him as a foil, to highlight the foolishness of sophists (what we today call "pre-Socratics") in order to make them get their shit together and improve; it's fairly evident that Socrates, in contrast to the sophists, has no possibility to improve but is a "dead end" hence why he chose suicide

it's enough to look at Plato's later works (Parmenides, Sophist, Statesman, Timaeus, Critias, Laws) to see his glory after overcoming that little twerp