domingo, 13 de diciembre de 2009

Socrates and the sophists





What is naturalism ? well for the ancient Greece it was to study nature. as it´s name implies. But who practiced it, well the Greece and more specifically the sophists. who the heck are the sophists ? well they are wise-men sophós meaning "wise-ist", one who "does" wisdom, more commonly know as the sophists. So these guys were the wise men of ancient Greece and the had knowledge and they gave classes and the classes cost money, Greece money.

But then came Socrates. Who was against the sophist who charged for work but he worked for free he talked i n the street for free. people didn´t like it, and by people i mean the sophists. It´s like open source software, as good as the paid stuff but free. Socrates was the ubuntu of his time he, mocked windows (sophists) saying stuff like they were un stable and full of bugs, weren't right in the way they tough, and it should be free. And full of feed back and interaction. The sophists like Microsoft didn´t like this.

But is it good that it was free, is it good that he died because it was free, what is good to begin with? anyhow Socrates was cool.