| Aristippus was a follower of Socrates, and the founder of the Cyrenaic school of philosophy. |
| One thinks of the shopkeepers and craftsmen in and around the Agora with whom Socrates passed the time of day. |
| For Socrates, the appetitive hedonist is a blissfully ignorant Sisyphus forever doomed to the cruel pleasure of scratching a persistent itch. |
| Little white rat Socrates becomes Willard's soul mate, and big gray rat Ben looms jealously nearby. |
| Socrates complains that a text, unlike a talking person, is authoritarian, eliminating dialogue. |
| For Socrates the act of communication is grounded in the world of original forms, archetypes, or abstract ideas. |
