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Just finished reading the Republic. It contained some pretty weird arguments that wouldn’t make much sense today, but for its time it was pretty good.

>> No.19025646

>>19025558
Insightful post, op. Thank you got adding your ass opinion about a book that has been debated and deconstructed by very smart people for 2300 years. Your opinion really matters

>> No.19025653

>>19025558
How will The Republic even recover from this

>> No.19026279

>>19025646
>>19025653
Some of his arguments go in the face of modern science, but given its historical context I would say it was pretty good. I would give it a 7.5/10.

>> No.19026292

>>19025558
>>19026279
good post. I often see the republic as a retard filter for people who cant think dynamically and consider the context presented in the book. His arguments are all self contained within the context of his disgussion and are used to illustrate points real and more abstract. Very little is not reasoned. Its mostly in spuriously drawing from extra-source context that people say the republic process is inane rather than simply apreciating the discourse in and of itself.

>> No.19026695

>>19026292
I just started reading Plato and yeah, he makes both poor and strong arguments. The point of the text is to make you think critically, not for you to necessarily be convinced by every single argument. Every other paragraph you have 'Socrates' saying 'hmm I might be wrong about this but here's my two cents'. You take the good with the bad. It's kind of retarded that people in the thread are whining about a common person coming to their own conclusion about the book even if it is an obvious or common conclusion since it seems that was kind of what Socrates and Plato wanted was for people to think it over themselves rather than to automatically agree with the most popular opinion.