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6543628 No.6543628 [Reply] [Original]

>Buy Barnes & Noble's Essential Dialogues of Plato to celebrate summer
>Footnotes use these symbols
I've never seen a hashtag or a parallel sign used with this purpose in mind before, but apparently they managed to do it.

Plato general, discuss Ideas, sameness, difference, funny old men who know nothing, etc. in here.

>> No.6543661

>>6543628
>I've never seen a hashtag or a parallel sign used with this purpose in mind before
What have you read, like 10 books?

>> No.6543663

>>6543661
I'm used to Chicago style footnotes. Numbers make more sense.

>> No.6543676

>>6543628
>>6543663
I agree numbers make more sense

but there are plenty of books out there that use this style of notation. if you were well-read you would have figured that out by know

>> No.6543691

>>6543628
>hashtag
underage detected

>> No.6543853

>>6543676
Nice condescending attitude. Do you have anything to say about Plato?
>>6543691
I'm 21, I'm just a millenial.

>> No.6543858

>>6543853
>I'm 21, I'm just a millenial.
Same, mate. It's fine to admit you're a little bit illiterate when you obviously are. It's noble, in fact.

>> No.6543879

I do not fancy I know what I do not know*

>> No.6543884

>>6543858
Great discussion, you sure have a lot to say about Platonic philosophy

>> No.6543887

>>6543884
Your thread exists because of me, mate. I bumped it from the grave. How about some fucking credit?

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6543890

how many dialogues have yall read?

currently embarking on this reading order. pic related


also, strauss sympathizer reporting in. fuck it 4

>> No.6543907

>>6543887
OP here, that wasn't even me.
Do you have anything to say about Plato?

>> No.6543919

>>6543907
No, thank you. I'm off to bed. Night!

>> No.6543936

any of you thought about studying plato professionally? That was my specialty in undergrad, graduated last year.


here's another topic of convo:

Aristophanes's speech in the symposium explaining the theoretical framework and internal of the polis as socrates presents it in the Republic and Protragoras's myth in the Protagoras.


or this: every character in the Symposium is present in the Protragoras... except aristophanes. Also, there are obvious similarities between Aristophanes's speech and Protagoras's. Given that Aristophanes represents probably the most powerful of Socrates's intellectual rivals, maybe there's something here.. Idk, maybe i'm an idiot.

any takers?

>> No.6543944

>>6543936
>studying plato professionally

What does one exactly do for a living in this case?

>> No.6543947

>>6543944
inherit money

if you had an inheritance enough that even a meager salary was plenty to live on, what would you do?

>> No.6543954

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dagger_%28typography%29

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6543955

>>6543944
This is what the Industrial revolution has done to intellectualism.
Your first thought being how to earn money from knowledge.

>> No.6544265

>>6543944
>Earning a living by studying Plato
You must not have studied Plato much.

>> No.6544451

>hashtag

I wonder if really old people used to get pissed at others for calling the octothorpe a pound sign back in the day.