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Re: Socrates a midwife?From: T Dubose (tjdubose@chrp.uams.edu)Thu Sep 26 09:02:49 1996
Here is a response about the Socrates - midwife issue. Terry J. DuBose ---------- From: Madelon Umlauf To: T Dubose Subject: Re: Socrates a midwife? Date: Wednesday, September 25, 1996 9:55PM Hi Terry! Socrates' mother was a midwife. Socrates' reference to himself as a midwife helping others to bring forth true understading of things is a metaphor for what he claims to accomplish for others. He, himself, claims to be barren of any truth. This is usually considered to be an example of Socratic irony. He of course did not attend pregnant women. Professionally, he was trained as a stonemason but apparently never practiced his trade. He was more or less supported by rich followers like the wealthy Plato. Unfortunately, lots of what Plato says, or has Socrates say in the dialogues is frequently misunderstood. Perhaps the reason for this is that Plato has such an enormous reputation that readers of him, especially in these credulous, anti-rationalist times, assume that he is to be understood as a mystifier like the Celestine Prophecy or the Chariots of the Gods. An especially egregious example of this is the modern belief in the lost continent of Atlantis which Plato recounts as nothing more than a myth in the dialogue Critias. The goofy reasoning behind this must be that if Plato recounts it as a myth, there must be something to it. For "Theattus", read "Theaetetus." Mike
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