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Anonymous Thu Jan 2 20:18:35 2014 No.4433283 [Reply] [Original]

Tell me a reason why I should read this book?

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 2 20:19:35 2014 No.4433291 If you need a reason you shouldn't

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 2 20:22:35 2014 No.4433300 >>4433291

Anonymous Thu Jan 2 20:23:34 2014 No.4433302

You shouldn't read it. Read everything else that Plato wrote. The Republic has been modified terribly through time by the christians and muslim copyists. Like that part where he says that poets should be banned when he quotes Homer as the ultimate reference literally in every page of all his works.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 2 20:25:34 2014 No.4433309 >>4433291 Seriously man idk why I brought this book today.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 2 20:25:34 2014 No.4433310 >>4433283 Maybe so you won't be such a fucking idiot and make threads like this. Almost any book will serve just as well. Enjoy your dilemma.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 2 20:30:34 2014 No.4433323 >>4433309 Just read it, then That way you won't waste a purchase

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 2 20:33:34 2014 No.4433340 File: 47 KB, 480x418, forms.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] because forms

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 2 20:35:34 2014 No.4433351 File: 344 KB, 1055x979, Platocave.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] How Can Mirrors Be Real If Our Eyes Aren't Real

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 2 20:37:36 2014 No.4433366 >>4433351 hah! Okay I will now begin to this book.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 2 20:45:34 2014 No.4433403 because any seroius examination of political philosophy begins with plato

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 2 20:48:34 2014 No.4433415 >>4433302 The republic is a late work in which he uses Socrates as his own voice and not as the voice of Socrates.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 2 20:50:34 2014 No.4433426 >>4433415 There's no way you can know that.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 2 20:54:34 2014 No.4433446 >>4433426 A basic analysis of the dialogues alongside ancient commentaries of Platonism will show you that the late dialogues present Plato's own and final thinking.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 2 22:20:27 2014 No.4433755 >>4433283 It's a good read, makes some interesting propositions, and is eerily prophetic at parts.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 2 22:31:27 2014 No.4433786 it's like the bible before it was cool, meaning you shouldn't read it

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 2 22:41:27 2014 No.4433821 >>4433786 But then how will you get all the allusions?

>>	Anonymous Fri Jan 3 02:03:39 2014 No.4434261 >>4433283 Passion.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jan 3 21:19:54 2014 No.4437169 >>4433415 Not a late work. The Laws is a late work, the Republic came before that. It's definitely not one of his early writings either, it's somewhere in between.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jan 3 22:13:43 2014 No.4437315 I just got banned from /mu/ am I a poet?

>>	Anonymous Fri Jan 3 22:25:14 2014 No.4437344 File: 806 KB, 1043x481, Republic.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Fri Jan 3 22:28:14 2014 No.4437354 >>4437169 It's middle-late, but regardless Plato is using his own voice as he did not in earlier works.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jan 3 22:31:15 2014 No.4437375 >>4437344 this is pretty accurate, I only read it because Socrates was pimpin

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