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Book Excerpt: 
. . .And you may affirm this in a proposition to your companion, or make the remark mentally to yourself. Whether the words are actually spoken or not, on such occasions there is a scribe within who registers them, and a painter who paints the images of the things which the scribe has written down in the soul,—at least that is my own notion of the process; and the words and images which are inscribed by them may be either true or false; and they may represent either past, present, or future. And, representing the future, they must also represent the pleasures and pains of anticipation—the visions of gold and other fancies which are never wanting in the mind of man. Now these hopes, as they are termed, are propositions, which are sometimes true, and sometimes false; for the good, who are the friends of the gods, see true pictures of the future, and the bad false ones. And as there may be opinion about things which are not, were not, and will not be, which is opinion. . . Read More

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3.00
- Caspar - Dec 13, 2021

A lesser-known dialogue, read in prep for a Derrida essay which I should get to soon. 3.5

Odd in its way- probably one of the last of Plato's works and apparently more humourless than we may be used to, though I had fun with the mostly-absent character of Philebus. He has only a handful of lines but

2.00
- Aithne - Mar 28, 2021

Nie wiem, czy Fileb jest słabszy od pozostałych dialogów Platona, czy też po prostu przejadło mi się już to platońskie filozofowanie, ale jakoś wyjątkowo mi ta książka nie podeszła. Dosyć chaotyczna i momentami trudno zrozumieć, o co Sokratesowi w ogóle chodzi (tu jednak plus za to, że autor najwyra

5.00
- MJD - Jul 27, 2018

While I have read 21 other books by Plato where he praises the development of the intellect, I think that the following from this book is his best defense of pursing wisdom instead of just pursuing sensual pleasures as a means to true human flourishing.

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3.00
- Ryō - Aug 24, 2016

This isn't a complaint, since I find Plato dialogues very charming for their miscellaneous banter, but half of the dialogue itself consisted of slight reworded repeats of the following:

Socrates: But you have forgotten one thing!
Protarchus: What's that?
Socrates: I will tell you now!
Protarchus: Please

5.00
- Hussain - Sep 02, 2015

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