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Laddar... Plato Unmasked: The Dialogues Made Newav Plato
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"Plato's dialogues in condensed translations that (1) preserve the flavor of the original Greek, and (2) enable the general reader or student to easily follow the thread of Plato's arguments, which are the source of our ideas on: romantic love, immortality of the soul, heaven and hell, divine judgment, social contract, political science, felicific calculus, penal reform, equality of women, child rearing (including prenatal care and the importance of rocking infants), universal education (divided into kindergarten, elementary school, and high school), eugenics, behavioral conditioning, professional military, urban planning, marriage counseling, regulation of environmental pollution, and state mandated care for the aged and insane ... to name only a few. This book will appeal to students, teachers, and readers studying Plato who want to easily follow his arguments but at the same time gain insight into the characters of the dialogues and their lives."--Jacket. Inga biblioteksbeskrivningar kunde hittas. |
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Quincy is absolutely correct about this. It’s difficult to understand how a blatantly imperialistic work like The Republic ends up being taught as a positive model of democracy, but many of us have read it as such in high school. Plato is quite clear, in even the most fumbling translation, that the philosopher should be king, that democracy, in a word, sucks, and, while he’s at it, that poets and musicians have no place in his ideal “republic.” Go figure.
Quincy likens his one-volume collection of the dialogues to a can of condensed milk. It’s much better than that; I always found reconstituted condensed milk pretty vile stuff. But the analogy is otherwise apt: what we get here is the meat of the dialogues. Purists and snobs will complain that this is a Reader’s Digest condensation, but Quincy is smarter than that. This single volume version of Plato provides a much-needed service for students and teachers, as Plato’s dialogues are notoriously long-winded and frequently obscure. Each dialogue is prefaced with a brief introduction which provides not only a general road map of where the particular dialogue is going but also some juicy, provocative historical and (when possible) biographical bits. The combination of context and road map makes this a perfect book for an introduction to ancient philosophy course.
[Originally published in Curled Up with a Good Book] ( )