What a pity the acquaintance didn't know the Socratic method: he could
have asked just what Socrates meant by "useful"!
Linda Walton,
(on a cool, damp, autumnal evening in High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire,
U.K., thinking back to all those Oxford University tutorials where I
endured the traditional treatment - the Socratic method).
David C COLLYER wrote:
[snip]
One day an acquaintance ran up to him excitedly and said, "Socrates,
do you know what I just heard about Diogenes?"
[snip]
"Well," concluded Socrates, "If what you want to tell me is neither
True nor Good nor even Useful, why tell it to me or anyone at all?"
The man was bewildered and ashamed. This is an example of why
Socrates was a great philosopher and held in such high esteem.
It also explains why Socrates never found out that Diogenes was
shagging his wife.
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