Re: Philosophers + Drain
I imagine the sloth scale has to do with the state of society in general. The greatest philosophers of Classical Greece were not lazy. If anything, the philosophers worked harder as the rest of society became lazy around them. Socrates was a hard-working stone mason who fought for Athens in the Peloponnesian War, and acted as the "gadfly" for them. He also was a very poor man and could not have just "sat around eating grapes." Plato was a teacher who left Athens after his teacher, Socrates, was executed, and he founded the Academy. As for Aristotle; he went on to found or develop so many things (everything from zoology to botany to literary criticism to founding the Lyceum), that there's no way he could be called lazy.
Of course, those philosophers were Socratic and afterwards. The philosophers described in the game appear to be presocratic, in spite of the presence of the academy. Socrates said that the best subject of philosophy was that of the human being, not the nature of the universe. I suppose that some of those Sophists could have been lazy... To complete my argument, I leave you with an anti-laziness quote from Aristocles (Plato's real name):
"Prefer diligence before idleness, unless you esteem rust above brightness."-- Plato
P.S. Has anyone ever considered making a philosopher-hero in a patch. Maybe he could be the greatest researcher who ever lived?
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