Explanation: Plato’s Republic is a text which was a legitimately major contribution to the development of Western philosophical thought.
It’s also fucking insufferable, as it takes the form of a ‘dialogue’ wherein Socrates (here acting as Plato’s mouthpiece, whatever the real Socrates’ opinions) has a discussion with the two easiest convinced men in all of Greece. “Yes. That is so. I would have to agree!”
… they’re not particularly unassailable arguments presented either.
I seem to remember a passage where he makes the argument that society should be ruled by a group of elites who know better than everyone else and decide who can reproduce etc. Funny how Western civilization turned out…
Explanation: Plato’s Republic is a text which was a legitimately major contribution to the development of Western philosophical thought.
It’s also fucking insufferable, as it takes the form of a ‘dialogue’ wherein Socrates (here acting as Plato’s mouthpiece, whatever the real Socrates’ opinions) has a discussion with the two easiest convinced men in all of Greece. “Yes. That is so. I would have to agree!”
… they’re not particularly unassailable arguments presented either.
fuck it man, because of language drift, I hate reading anything before 1950s. this shit all needs upgrading.
Socrates u r so lit no cap fr fr
Mark Twain still rocks
I seem to remember a passage where he makes the argument that society should be ruled by a group of elites who know better than everyone else and decide who can reproduce etc. Funny how Western civilization turned out…