SOCRATES,A PARADIGM

SOCRATES WAS HAFEZ OF ATHENS.THE FATHER OF PHILOSOPHY LIKE OUR FATHER OF POETRY AND LIBERTINISM WAS A MASTER OF " NOT..BUT ",AND I MEAN : NOT WISE BUT OTHERWISE SAGE.THAT MIGHT BE THE REASON HE WAS COMPARED TO RELIGIOUS FOUNDER FIGURE SUCH AS BUDDHA OR JESUS CHRIST,and larger than life
VERY INTERESTINGLY SOMEONE ELSE,CALLED PLATO,WROTE SOCRATES BIO AND STILL CALLED IT :AUTOBIOGRAPHY..Lyers!But WHO CARES, AS LONG AS WE GET TO KNOW WHAT WAS GOING ON IN HIS MIND.,and or in his disciple's mind.
SOCRATES LIVED BETWEEN 470 OR 469 TO 399 BC AND HIS bdWAS JUNE 4  ,ACCORDING TO WHATEVER CALLENDAR,ALTHOUGH WE KNOW IT WAS AT THE TIME OF ONE OF PERSIAN-GREEK WAR IN PLATEA ,TO SUCCESSFULLY REDUCE CIVILIZATIONS TO the level of ASHES and dust,AND LET THE SPECTATORS ENJOY it.HE INFLUNCED PLATO AND OTHERS IN GRECO ROMAN SCHOOL OF THOUGHT." WITH THE EXCEPTION OF EPICUREANS, EVERY PHILOSOPHICAL SCHOOL IN ANTIQUITY,WHATEVER ITS ORIENTATION,SAW IN HIM EITHER ITS ACTUAL FOUNDER OR THE TYPE OF PERSON TO WHOM ITS ADHERENCE WERE TO ASPIRE"(STANFORD ENCYLOPEDIA OF PHILOSOPHY)

ENIGMATIC UNKNOWN SOCRATES
SPREADED WIND WITH WINGS OF CLOUDS
TO TAKE THE WORLD BACK TO MAN
TO SHOW HIM
KNOWLEDGE IS WHAT
I DO NOT HAVE KNOWLEDGE
'CAUSE
" I KNOW WHAT I KNOW NOTHING"
HE WAS IN DIALOGUE WITH DEATH
WITH LIFE WITH DEATH AGAIN.
LIFE IS VIRTUE OF SELF DEVELOPMENT
NOT FOR WEALTH
BUT FOR HEALTHY POPULACE(wellth?)
A MAN OF REASON
THE RENAISSANCE MAN.

THERE IS A CLOWN
IN CLOUDS OF CLOSET
CLOUDS LAYING EGGS
IN THE WIND
A CLOWN IS BORN.

POISON IS A VEHICLE FOR Socrates
DEATH IS MIGRATION.

-F.S.
TO ANSWER YOU WHO SOCRATES WAS,now that you got to know Kant,and liked the poem I wrote for him ,on the occasion of Earth Day.This one written ON Socrates  BIRTHDAY.
Modified June 4,2010