Recenti studi sul giovane Socrate ce lo ripresentano in una luce tutt’affatto diversa da quella tramandataci dalla storiografia traditional.
Cherefonte His good friend, best known for the famous question of Pythias, the brilliant Athenian philosopher known since the time of his childhood and early adolescence.
In a text recently discovered and attributed unambiguously precisely to Cherefonte,
he tells first-hand the moment when he had first to emerge from the judgment longer seen as the foundation and the entire lintel Socratic thought.
Cherefonte tells Socrates that, little more than a child, was then at school, in the classroom in downtown Athens, which both attended.
The teacher that day he decided to do a query geometry unscheduled and therefore completely unexpected, sparking panic among the young disciples. In addition the subject was new, daring as abstruse theory known as the Pythagorean Theorem.
Proceeding in alphabetical order the relentless teacher asked Alcaeus, Anaxagoras, Anaximander, Anaximenes, Aristotle, and then Cherefonte, Democritus, Demosthenes, Heraclitus, Parmenides, Sappho, Seneca. And all, one after the other, stammering excuses to justify their incredible lack of preparation.
The usual justification of the world began: my grandmother fell out of bed and I had to accompany her to the hospital, locusts and other plagues, the periodic invasion of the Spartans or Trojans, the tsunami raised by the disastrous collapse of the Colossus of Rhodes.
The teacher did not soften, and his record is filled with zeros split.
the time came to Socrates, who was watching the carnage accomplished with absolute aplomb.
"And what have you to say, Socrates? We feel a bit '. "I called out the teacher.
In Socrates stood silently, watching the teacher and fixed eyes uttered in a firm voice:
"I do not know."
The teacher was silent a few interminable seconds, pondering the response of the young disciple, then said
"Ok, thou hast tried, but getting caught by a zero cross-section, too. Sit back, goes there. "
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