I’m sometimes baffled by other people’s understanding of Plato. Describing Plato as authoritarian is an extremely creative way to characterize what he’s about. However arguing that he was traumatized from seeing Socrates’ trial is basically just making stuff up.
It’s maybe a possibility that he secretly felt this way, but there were two or three dialogues on the events concerning the trial of Socrates, the time he spent waiting for his execution, and then his actual death that sort of stand in the way of a reasonable person drawing the same conclusion.
It’s maybe a possibility that he secretly felt this way, but there were two or three dialogues on the events concerning the trial of Socrates, the time he spent waiting for his execution, and then his actual death that sort of stand in the way of a reasonable person drawing the same conclusion.