/lit/ - Literature

>>10924003
>>10923988
My response was pertaining to Laws. I can tell Laws and Republic differ in certain regards, most likely because Socrates was a real, historical person, so a dialogue without Socrates is going to differ greatly from one which incorporates his influence.

Remember, when you're reading Socratic dialogues, it's almost like you're reading any Gospel from the New Testament, sure they are going to be telling you what Jesus said, but Mark or Luke is going to put a twist on it. Same with Socrates and Plato.

So Laws differs considerably from the Republic even though they describe roughly the same thing. But there are important, key similarities. And disapproving of comedies/tragedies is one of them.

But in Laws, they ban it from the city altogether. And rightly so, of course. They are absolutely terrible for your soul. I still think this. I consider the amount of people losing themselves in a work of fiction and how horrible their perception of reality could possibly be becoming. Non-fiction (contemplation of higher ideas) is immensely more enjoyable. I try to get some mathematics/economics/philosophy in every day. I can't remember the last time I read fiction. And I am a very sociable, fun guy as well.

Rank these works from first to last

- The Holy Bible
- Euclid's Elements
- Plato's Republic
- The Koran
- Aristotle's Metaphysica
- U. S. Constitution
- Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations
- Machiavelli's The Prince
- Tao Te Ching
- Dhammapada

Last five books in general? Okay...

>Apollonius - On Conics Books V - VII in the translation of the Banu Musa/G.J. Toomer
>Nicomachus - Introduction to Arithmetic
>Leon Walras - Elements of Pure Economics
>Jean Jacques Rousseau - Emile; or On Education
>Jean Jacques Rousseau - The Social Contract

Current ONE?
>reading one book

>Ibn Al-Haytham - Completion of the Conics
>Irving Fisher - Mathematical Investigations Into the Theory of Value and Price
>Alexander Hamilton/James Madison - The Federalist Papers
>Plato - The Laws

How isn't a reductio ad absurdum a petito principii for binary issues?

No painting can rival this

Can we get a reading group going folks

want to be able to discuss a book good and proper

>>8974618
"_____________" - Famous literary figure

Consider yourself refuted thus.