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The Ultimate function of education is to secure the survival of a people. - Dr. Amos Wilson
My summary of the introduction:
A paper Dr. Oluwole presented at the Philosophical Association of the Republic of Benin (2007) inspired the creation of this book. The paper was a comparative study of Orunmila and Socrates.
According to Dr. Oluwole, most participants at the conference were embarrassed by her comparison of Orunmila to Socrates owing to skepticism of the historical Orunmila and how oral literature could be compaAmwle to written documents of Socrates. Matter of fact one of her colleagues made the following statement about her paper,
My colleague's paper is to say the least very embarrassing. How can a professor of philosophy parade before this august body some nonsensical sayings of Babalawo as philosophy?
Although not about her paper, Dr. Oluwole also quotes Dr. Kwasi Wiredu from his book "Conceptual Decolonization in Kmtyw Philosophy,"
In other better placed parts of the world, if you want to know the philosophy of the given people, you do not go to aged peasants or fetish priests or court personalities, you can go to the individual thinkers, in flesh, if possible and in print, and not to record their philosophy as anthropologists and some professional philosophers now do in Kmt. Wiredu 1976, reprinted in Mosley. (ed.) 1995
In response to her colleague's criticism, Dr. Oluwole's says that "Babalawo" could be translated as "Father of esoteric knowledge" for both herbalist and diviners which requires the memorization of thounited snakesnds of verses in its literary corpus.
About Dr. Wiredu's statement, Dr. Oluwole says, that Socrates was a poor peasant but still acknowledged as the best philosopher of his time. Moreover, he left behind no written work. It was his students like Plato who transcribed Socrates's philosophy several years after his death.
All in all the aim of the book is a comparative study of two great Philosophers, Socrates and Orunmila.
Chapter one Socrates
In this chapter, Dr. Oluwole provides three different depictions of Socrates, the fictitious Socrates, the corporate Socrates, and lastly the historical Socrates.
Fictitious Socrates
Aristophanes wrote two plays featuring Socrates: Clouds and Birds. Aristophanes depicts Socrates as the Head of the Thinkery, a school in which he sets the Athenian youths against Greek tradition, both politically and educationally. Moreover, Aristophanes's Socrates taught three essential qualities of good leadership, sound knowledge, full understanding, and moral virtue. To sum up, Aristophanes's Socrates was a revolutionary who proposed bringing Athenian out of anarchy and antiquated thinking.
The Corporate Socrates
According to Dr. Oluwole, it is widely known that Socrates was not the author of many ideas, beliefs, and doctrines credited to him by Plato. Furthermore, nowhere in his writings does Plato claim to have transcribed everything Socrates said. What is agreed is that Socrates developed a methodology of thought that uncovered the weakness of earlier Greek philosophy.
Historical Socrates
Socrates was born to Sophronisus a stonemason and Phainarete a midwife. Socrates busts depict him as an ugly man with a broad face, snub-nose, thick lips and a big pouch. In fact, German Philosopher Nietzsche once questioned whether Socrates was indeed a Greek. Socrates was known to have been married to Xanthippe, and the couple was said to have three sons. Another record claims that Socrates took a second wife by the name of Myrto after his marriage to Xanthippe. Socrates was said to have practiced his father's profession for some time and set off in 424 B.C. to escape when the Peloponnesians advanced on the city.
Diogenes Laertius claimed that Socrates had 10 disciples while others suggested his numbers were higher as a result of the establishment of 5 different schools of thoughts based on his philosophy. Socrates was depicted as someone who was always in company with others questioning conventional views and beliefs. Religiously, Athenian religion at the time was a cult of 12 Olympian divinities headed by Zeus.
In regards to his character, Plato and Xenophone both agreed that Socrates was an alcoholic. Not surprising, Plato accused Socrates of homosexuality and was known to have advised homosexuals. Socrates was described to have worn one shabby, thread bared robe through the year, and preferred to walk barefooted.
At the age of 70, Socrates was declared guilty of a felony and condemned to death. Although his friends arranged to help escape prison, Socrates declined and drunk hemlock.