Translation examples
Kaikki vastaukset ovat leikkisiä ja paradoksaalisia: esimerkiksi Sokrates ylpeilee parittamisen taidetta koskevilla tiedoillaan.
All their answers are playful or paradoxical: Socrates, for one, prides himself on his knowledge of the art of match-making.
Toisaalta Platonin ja Ksenofonin kuvausten välillä on myös ristiriitoja: esimerkiksi Platonin Sokrates kieltää usein, ettei ota rahaa opetuksesta, kun taas Ksenofonin Pidoissa Sokrates sanoo selvästi, että hän saa oppilailtaan maksun viisauden opettamisesta ja saa siten elantonsa.
Many of the dialogues seem to use Socrates as a device for Plato's thought, and inconsistencies occasionally crop up between Plato and the other accounts of Socrates; for instance, Plato has Socrates denying that he would ever accept money for teaching, while Xenophon's Symposium clearly has Socrates stating that he is paid by students to teach wisdom and that this is what he does for a living.
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