For Ranasinghe, the deepest level of Socrates’ teaching is the overcoming of skepticism and a philosophical justification of morality, a justification of our undeniable erotic impulse to have faith in logos as the foundation of friendship as genuine human community. Ranasinghe’s reading of the Gorgias clearly establishes that genuine dialectic is the deadly enemy of sophistry; this means that the sophist Gorgias and the philosopher Socrates could never be friends. The pseudo-philosophical interpreters of Plato achieve their sham enlightenment by not really appreciating the radical distinction between Socratic dialectic and sophisticated manipulation. Socratic dialectic means to offer spiritual enlightenment to us all. - Excerpt: The Gorgias of yesteryear are the equivalent of Ivory Tower Professors in the Modern College and University, they talk smooth and intellectually believe what they say but have no consistency between what they say and what they do. Socrates and any True Philosopher lives what they believe in an all-encompassing way.
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