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Desmond Lee
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Tolle Lege!.
Tolle Lege!. rated it 9 years ago
This is clearly one of the best books ever written. Many times I've started reading it but never could get in to it. This is the first time I actually tried listening to it instead of reading it, and now I realize that this book was meant to be listened to not read. I suspect it is a very good trans...
Philosophical Musings of a Book Nerd
Sometimes I wonder if people give this book five stars because it is either a) written by Plato, or b) if you don't give it five stars then you are afraid that people will think that you are some semi-literate mindless cretin whose reading capacity tends to extend little beyond the Harry Potter and ...
ybrikman
ybrikman rated it 12 years ago
This book has some brilliant/famous parts, but it's mostly just a guy eloquently agreeing with himself. The allegory of the cave is terrific. The basic concept of a Socratic Dialogue is fascinating: far easier to read and follow than the typical philosophical prose, but also comical in some ways, at...
Julian Meynell's Books
Julian Meynell's Books rated it 12 years ago
Arguably this is the greatest work of philosophy ever written and it is pretty clearly one of the most important books of all time. It comes the closest to summing up all of Plato`s philosophy in one place.All of Plato`s works are dialogues with the main character usually being Socrates. The first...
janeg
janeg rated it 13 years ago
"Homer is dear to me, but truth is dearer."
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