Plato's Republic

Is it any good?

No. Plato destroyed Syracuse.

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>what is reading

ma bite

If you mean the Grube translation, yes, it's good. I had read Jowett a few times and never quite got the praise heaped upon the Republic. Grube's translation was the first where I really "got it."

Anecdotal, but a recommendation, anyway

>Get really excited to read Plato
>Start with the Pre-Socratics
>Impressed by their ingenuity and inventiveness
>Super fucking pumped to read Plato now
Finally start the dialogues
>Socrates: "So would you say these [leaps of logic] and [outlandish assumption] are true?"
>Cocksucker(Crito): "Yes, of course"
>Socrates: "Then [over-reaching conclusion] must also be true, I am right"
>Cocksucker: "Holy fuck you're right Socrates."
>Cocksucker 2: "But what about [retarded shit]?"
>Socrates: "That's retarded shit"
>Cocksucker 2: "Holy fuck you're right Socrates."
"The safest general characterization of the European philosophical tradition is that it consists of a series of footnotes to Plato."
-Alfred North Whitehead, Process and Reality, p. 39 [Free Press, 1979];

Yeah, I heard that Whitehead quote on the intro philosophy lecture on youtube too

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