Overall the content is short but "good enough" it presents the main topics and skips any indepth analysis that would make it a complete philosophical book which is to say that it's good for what it is, a short sneak peak into Plato's world and thought.
One of the most substantive commentary and summation of Plato's works! I actually did enjoy it as much as I was at odds with some of its philosophies.
Good for what it is a basic overview, Plato was an Athenian philosopher born during the classical period of Ancient Greece, His works consist of dialogues concerning different philosophical and moral issues, Socrates appears in many of Plato's works and is usually the protagonist, There are many opinions on the authenticity of some of the dialogues and the chronological order of these works,
This book was like a revision of what I read, Plato is interesting. And it is intriguing to see how Platonic ideas influenced philosophies and philosophers of the later centuries,
I like Platos dialogues, I get this feeling of being involved in their discussions in Ancient Greece, It is like going back in time, However, I dislike Platos ideas, especially his political philosophy and metaphysics, and I prefer Aristotle over him, But I can say that Plato is a good start to philosophy and a very important figure,
This book goes over Platos works briefly, and I realized while listening to the book that I read many of the works mentioned, and this was just a refreshing listen.
I prefer longer introductions because I can easily forget the shorter ones, And if it weren't for my previous knowledge of Plato, I would have forgotten the minute I finished this book, The republic was the inspiration for brave
new world! I Want to read everyday This one gave me a lot to think about, If love is an emotion derived from want or lack of something then could it be said that war and love stem from the same thing If war stems from a lack of something could it not be resolved in the same manner which love is I'll have to reread this book.
I feel as if I've missed something, This wellperformed audiobook provides an accessible introduction to Plato's life and thought and incidentally Socrates' thought, Heston's voice changes with the characters, punctuating overviews of Plato's ideas with snippets from his Dialogues, Lang also highlights some difficulties and by doing so, he makes the reader want to investigate Plato and his critics further, The fact that Socrates, Plato and Aristotle created revolutions in improvements in multiple times of history is so remarkable,
The thoughts and concepts blew my mind, I'm fairly cynical and have read a ton, so it's amazing to me to hear ideas that reorganise how I view the world, This is a summary of all of Platos works
Listened via Libby, atx speed In this brief book, seems Socrates was into the abstract part of philosophy, while Plato was inclined towards definite.
Plato was the first person to organize and record the issues and questions that define philosophy, As Socrates' student, Plato preserved the teachings of his great mentor in many famous "dialogues" these deal with classic issues like law and justice, perception and reality, death and the soul, mind and body, reason and passion, and the nature of love.
The dialogues also discuss the value of moral principle vs, the value of life itself how to achieve virtue and how each of us can fulfill our true nature,
The most famous of all Platonic doctrines is the "theory of forms, " This theory that any object's true reality is found in its rational form or structure rather than in its material appearance, And Plato's Republic presents his distinctive and much criticized vision of the ideal state,
Plato believed that philosophy begins in the sense of wonder, With Socrates, he sees philosophy as reason, unhindered by feelings, emotions, and the senses, And from these two great thinkers we have received perhaps the most well known of all philosophical utterances: "the unexamined life is not worth living, "
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