Why didn't Socrates write anything but Plato did?

Why didn't Socrates write anything but Plato did?

Because Socrates is just someone Plato made up. He didn't actually exist.

Plato was the original posting this on reddit fag

How do we even know Plato existed?

Cuz Plato was a nerd

Writing stuff down was considered lowly. Memory was emphasized. We’re lucky we got what we have desu.

I think it was in phaedrus where he said "by the dog of Egypt, writing make your memory shit" or something along those lines.

Because Aristotle told us.

So who made up Plato?

And how do we know Aristotle didn't invent Plato?

And how do we that Aristotle existed?

Because Aristotle wasn't real

Socrates was too busy pumping weights and fucking wenches

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>fucking wenchs
you mean young men?

Plato never existed. Socrates invented him and that whole trial

Aristotle's students did*. We have absolutely no original works of Aristotle remaining.

Because Alexander the Great told us.

no Socrates was straight he didn't even fuck Alcibiades

Socrates thought writing things down ruined memory.

Probably because he was a pseud bitch who deserved to die.

How can Greeks even compete?

Socrates thought nothing because he didn't exist

Aristotle

Aristotle isn't real.

Socrates wasn’t just a fictional character of Plato’s. Plato actually disguised himself as Socrates because Plato was considered too young to hold any real wisdom at that time, but he knew someone had to take down the pesky Sophists, so he became the world’s first and only philosophical superhero. Ever notice Plato never appears in any of the dialogues with Socrates? In fact the trial and execution were staged by associates of Plato’s, his accusers have been proven to have been family friends of Plato, being a member of the aristocratic class. Notice that Plato is conveniently sick during the Apology...
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>Ever notice Plato never appears in any of the dialogues with Socrates?

Seriously why is this?

Because he's writing down what Socrates said, not him.

the dialogues are fictions... there's no reason for plato to put himself into them if it's supposed to be about the ideas socrates was speaking on.
maybe he thought putting himself in would take away from the points socrates made in them.

>Notice that Plato is conveniently sick during the Apology.
That always struck me as odd.