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**RagonaCon** · 07-06-2011, 10:04 PM

FBM/KA:Socrates-Plato basically embedded the philosophical tradition of teaching by analogy, simile, metaphor, etc... into Greek philosophy (and consequently the rest of philosophy), methods the Buddha also employed to teach.

Yes, but that do not mean that the written teachings of the historical Buddha are philosophical works like the ones of Plato or any other philosopher nor that the Buddha was a philosopher. I am a teacher. I taught with metaphors too, but I am not a philosopher.

Metaphor, simile and analogy are not copyrighted means of Plato and Socrates. Those are means of teaching, not philosophical endeavours.

07-06-2011, 10:04 PM	#30
RagonaCon Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 484 Senior Member	FBM/KA:Socrates-Plato basically embedded the philosophical tradition of teaching by analogy, simile, metaphor, etc... into Greek philosophy (and consequently the rest of philosophy), methods the Buddha also employed to teach. Yes, but that do not mean that the written teachings of the historical Buddha are philosophical works like the ones of Plato or any other philosopher nor that the Buddha was a philosopher. I am a teacher. I taught with metaphors too, but I am not a philosopher. Metaphor, simile and analogy are not copyrighted means of Plato and Socrates. Those are means of teaching, not philosophical endeavours.
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