Modern day socrates

Socrates was credited as one of the founders of western philosophy. He had a method of his own, he would question the opposing person and let them paint themselves into a corner and attack when he sees the chance is right. He is the type to speak out if he doesn’t believe in something; after all he did ultimately end up dying for what he believed in.

If I had to label someone as the modern day Socrates, I would give that title to Kanye West. Mr. West gets the title for a number of reasons. My first reason is at the VMA’s when Taylor Swift won the award for best music video and he walked up on stage and stated what he believed it appeared to me as something that Socrates would have done. Basically what I’m saying is from evidence/their actions we are easily able to say that these two guys are similar because they do things that very few other people would do for what they believe in such as simply die, or interrupt someone giving a speech in front of millions of people and reveal to them that you believed someone else should have won.

I also put Kanye West under the title of the modern day Socrates because he had the confidence to say it about himself. He (Kanye West) said, “Now, I’ma need you to kill the hypocrisy, this is an aristocracy. I’m Socrates, but my skin more chocolately.” He is very confident in what he does, just as Socrates it confident that he is the best philosopher.