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How should I read this?

>> No.11362727

>>11362713
From the first page to the last

>> No.11362735

Read the sparknotes or listen to a lecture on it instead, it's like 80% garbage and really highlights that things don't become influential because they are good, they become "good" because they are influential.

>> No.11362736

sit in front of a campfire and burn each page after you finish reading it

>> No.11362737

>>11362713
1. open book
2. read page
3. turn to next page
4. repeat steps 2 and 3 until you finish

>> No.11362742

>>11362713
Very carefully.

>> No.11362746

ok op is retarded but i'll make this thread worth it by asking: why should i read this?

(genuine question, i'm finishing phaedo and would only read meno after it and fuck off from corpus platonicum)

>> No.11362758

>>11362746
It influenced thought and civilizations for well over 1,000 years, in fact it is arguably the most studied non-religious text in human history.

>> No.11362765

>>11362713
Well I think that all of us on this board have read the Republic..

>> No.11362781

>>11362713

start with Jay Dyer's lectures on it

>> No.11362813

>>11362737
But anon, then you’d only read every other page

>> No.11362982

>>11362813
> he didn't read every other page

>> No.11362988

>>11362758
>non-religious

>> No.11363014

>>11362713
start on page 46 and read backwards

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11363139

At first i thought a lot of what is said in this book was stupid, but the more i read and think about politics, the more i've come to agree with even some of the most ridiculous parts of the book.

>> No.11363195

Why is polemarchus such a stupid faggot?

>> No.11363481

I really love the elegant English of the Jowett translations, but they can be hard to read. Is there anyone who translates as poetically but in an more understandable style?
>But he who thinks that in the written word there is necessarily much which is not serious, and that neither poetry nor prose, spoken or written, is of any great value, if, like the compositions of the rhapsodes, they are only recited in order to be believed, and not with any view to criticism or instruction; and who thinks that even the best of writings are but a reminiscence of what we know, and that only in principles of justice and goodness and nobility taught and communicated orally for the sake of instruction and graven in the soul, which is the true way of writing, is there clearness and perfection and seriousness, and that such principles are a man’s own and his legitimate offspring;—being, in the first place, the word which he finds in his own bosom; secondly, the brethren and descendants and relations of his idea which have been duly implanted by him in the souls of others;—and who cares for them and no others—this is the right sort of man; and you and I, Phaedrus, would pray that we may become like him

>> No.11364076

>>11362735
Pleb