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A review by eb00kie
The Laws of Plato by Plato, Thomas L. Pangle
informative
reflective
slow-paced
4.0
The one Plato work that makes for accessible, organised, reading
I have the greatest respect for Plato’s work and what it has meant for Western thought and Western culture. To my chagrin, Plato and the Socratic dialogues have proven rage-inducing to go through, if you are like me the sort who:
* sees an argument that looks strange
* picks it apart, because believes character is flippant
* works on refuting it for 5 minutes
* realises author is dead and can’t answer
* does a Tasmanian Devil impersonation
However, here we are dealing with a lecture, rather than a debate, which will hopefully make it easier to digest the ideas.
If not, this book might still be for you, as a coherent, comprehensive layout for main governance issues or for the mental exercise of ‘coding’ a fictional Polis from scratch. It is very rewarding.
I have the greatest respect for Plato’s work and what it has meant for Western thought and Western culture. To my chagrin, Plato and the Socratic dialogues have proven rage-inducing to go through, if you are like me the sort who:
* sees an argument that looks strange
* picks it apart, because believes character is flippant
* works on refuting it for 5 minutes
* realises author is dead and can’t answer
* does a Tasmanian Devil impersonation
However, here we are dealing with a lecture, rather than a debate, which will hopefully make it easier to digest the ideas.
If not, this book might still be for you, as a coherent, comprehensive layout for main governance issues or for the mental exercise of ‘coding’ a fictional Polis from scratch. It is very rewarding.