Socratic Question

In one of his many lectures, Christopher Hitchens said, even if Socrates never existed as a historical figure, whoever invented and advanced the socratic philosophical ideas and method was a genius. While I was pondering on why an intellectual heavyweight like Hitchens would doubt the existence of one of the most celebrated Western philosophers, it quickly dawned on me that he was simply thinking out loud the "Socratic question."

The Socratic question is simply the age-old question about the historical existence of Socrates and his writings. But this question is deemed unsolvable. In other words, it's seemingly impossible to truly ascertain if Socrates actually did live and develop the philosophical ideas attributed to him. Well, I'm not here to answer or solve the Socratic question. Rather, i'm only here to provoke your thought process! 

In this provocation, I'll leave Socrates alone, at least for know, and move on to Plato. This is where it gets very interesting! Only a loony would doubt the existence of Plato; the B.C era, great Greek philosopher. Well, so I thought, until I discovered another Plato, Gemistus Pletho, in Constantinople, in the 15th Century of the common era.

According to the traditional history, Gemistus Pletho was a 15th Century Neoplatonist, from Constantinople, who reintroduced Platonic philosophical ideas and method into the West. Are you thinking what I was thinking: how on earth did a Neoplatonist (I.e. Gemistus Pletho), in 15th Century Constantinople, suddenly discover all the long-lost writings of Plato nearly 2 thousand years after Plato, decipher all the writings which were supposedly written in old Greek, and reintroduce them to the West? How did Gemistus Pletho even stumble upon Plato's materials in Constantinople?

As far as I'm concerned, traditional Plato was a phantom copy of Gemistus Pletho, who actually lived around 15th Century CE in Constantinople! Anyway, there's something I want the students of history to fully understand: nobody alive a thousand years ago or even in the Middle Ages could decipher the writings and the language of those who lived in the B.C era, nor is there anybody today who can possibly attempt that feat. In other words, the totality of B.C era history was created in the Middle Ages.

Question everything because the world is a matrix of lies!