To your last point, no, I'm poorly read about these guys. I do know that one was a student of the other, that they were collaborators of a sort. In a possibly similar fashion to Lennon and McCartney who famously fell out when the Beatles broke up, wrote songs harshly critical of each other and were only reconciled at the end.
My idea was that, maybe, Plato and Socrates had a similar end to their collaboration, with one trashing the other.
It just irked me that someone (Plato) thought he had wisdom enough to declare the wisdom that someone else had accrued (Socrates) to be worthless. If all wisdom is worthless, however, what was his freakin' point, since he's instructing people to not take him seriously, either.
Why listen to someone who comes out and says that no one is worth listening to?
