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Anonymous Fri Nov 6 17:12:18 2020 No.16726390 [Reply] [Original]

what are the most essential works of Plato scholarship and secondary sources on Plato?

>>	Anonymous Fri Nov 6 17:22:01 2020 No.16726443 >>16726390 Aristotle

>>	Anonymous Fri Nov 6 17:30:47 2020 No.16726490 >>16726443 Yeah pretty much lol. I wouldn't consider him ""essential"" but Alain Badiou's hypertranslation of The Republic really helped me connect Plato's idea of the Forms to Aristotle's notion of substance. I'd check him out too, he's fun :)

>>	Anonymous Fri Nov 6 19:05:59 2020 No.16726919 >>16726490 >Plato's idea of the Forms >Aristotle's notion of substance What's the value of this? Genuinely curious.

>>	Anonymous Fri Nov 6 19:17:22 2020 No.16726990 File: 24 KB, 475x475, preface to plato.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] maybe not ESSENTIAL but definitely worth the read.

>>	Anonymous Fri Nov 6 19:18:07 2020 No.16726991 >>16726490 >hypertranslation what's that? Also is Badiou worth reading?

>>	Anonymous Fri Nov 6 19:19:18 2020 No.16726999 File: 260 KB, 746x1033, plato.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>16726390 >>16726990 also reading him in chronological order and understanding what events in his life had effects on his work (like his political ambitions in syracuse failing)

>>	Anonymous Fri Nov 6 19:22:58 2020 No.16727016 >>16726490 what is the point of badiou's translation? subvert his essential points in favor of a literality and emphasis on the analogical communal society in the book?