I think sadly though those who care for philosophy care little for the tales of morality in any of those forms, it seems to be my impression at least. They probably don't even know what Aesops Fables are, and care less for the prose than a rat cares for a space to grind in.
But if I can ask a question to those who discuss and debate this issue, why do you shun any sort of story but your own? what is it about the good life that makes you shun others?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ekx3unEYYWg
As the green clarinet shows...
Or should I say a parody of the Pied Piper of Hamlyn.
... like those who dine well off the plainest dishes, he made use of humble incidents to teach great truths, and after serving up a story he adds to it the advice to do a thing or not to do it. Then, too, he was really more attached to truth than the poets are; for the latter do violence to their own stories in order to make them probable; but he by announcing a story which everyone knows not to be true, told the truth by the very fact that he did not claim to be relating real events.
—Philostratus, Life of Apollonius of Tyana, Book V:14
On Aesop.
I am well aware most if not all will say: I have not seen this, I will not see this, I will not watch this, I can not watch this, I can not read this I can not see this. But such ignorance should not go unchallenged, such a thing is not philosophy at all: you are only a blind man in a dark room, looking for a light switch even if you could find it. it would not hence and could not enlighten you. How so?
