Did Socrates Try To Warn Us About Social Media Influencers?
How Plato's philosophy can be applied to today's hyper-digital and hyper-artificial world.
Being an undergraduate student, I’ve realized that if I ever want to pursue graduate school within the realm of philosophy, I’ll eventually have to synthesize my own ideas and theories. The transition from learning and studying others as an undergraduate student to eventually making my own intellectual contributions to academia is something that I’m definitely looking forward to.
I’m bringing this up because today’s post will be a bit different from my usual ones. In this post, rather than solely analyzing the ideas of other philosophers, I’ll actually be sharing some of my own observations and ideas. Specifically, I’ll be drawing a connection between some ideas put forth by Socrates (and Plato) over 2000 years ago and our current lives in the modern age. If any of you enjoy today’s post and would like to see more content in the future featuring my own philosophical ideas, be sure to let me know.
Socrates and Plato
Socrates was a Greek philosopher who lived a little over 2400 years ago. …