Self_Exposure_Horace_And_Socrates

Self Exposure:Horace And Socrates Self-Exposure: Horace and Socrates When reading books for academic purposes, students are always searching for an underlying meaning, something deeper than the author’s main point, or something that can be found in a summary. In reading Horace’s Satires and Epistles and Plato The Symposium, a very ironic discovery can be made. Socrates and Horace have apparently been granted authority by their immediate audience on their respective topics, however they use others to reveal their struggles with living the ideal life that they teach. This shows that they too are human and also must continually be taught. Horace uses his satires to expose human folly. He does not, however, forget to examine himself. In Book I of his Satires, he uses other people to expose the foolishness of humans. He japes about superstitions by telling a silly story about scaring witches in a cemetery by farting during their ceremony. This book is rather enjoyable to read because it allows readers to relate Horace’s stories to their own experiences with everyday foolishness. He uses humor to expose moral faults and folly because laughter may lessen the pain of the truth. Horace also brings to light horace, socrates, out, others, book, made, about, speech, point, love, living, beauty, life, however, faults, diotima, way, step, speeches, readers, people, one, instead, human, himself, expose, damasippus, because, world, very, taken, symposium, starts, stairs, shortcomings