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...good gawd is this a chore. Ya think he'd throw in a smokin' monkey or at least a quick-witted martian or something.
Boy, does this suck...
Any of you crazy Greek Philosophy fans know any good Plato drinking games?
...the worst Saturday night of my life... well, not counting that Birthday in Moose Jaw... okay, okay: the Moose Jaw jail.
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Speaking of heavy lifting, im reading some "tale of two cities" by Dickens (I dont mean to compare this to the republic, which is obvious a lot tougher and mundane) but when the author's idea of humour is spousal abuse and graverobbing, well, lets just say its not fun stuff--
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I forgot to mention that i think he is a little over-idealistic at times and contradictory... haha
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I wound just love it for about 50 pages, then the next 100 would be sooo boring and then I'd come across another section that I thought was great, and so on. I thought it was worthwhile though, because there are so many allusions to Plato in literature and it's nice to be able to pick up on them.
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Can't stand it. Plato was backwards on just about everything under the sun, IMHO. Aristotle had the better philsophies, or at least the ones that one can live by...
CHORE is the perfect word for The Republic. I'm having to do it AGAIN for my History of Criticism class, but thankfully I don't have to pay close attention since I read the heady brew before...
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Had to read it for a Humanities class. Some good discussion came about in class, but the read for me was very painful.
hock: I love The Republic!!! So many interesting questions arise all throughout...
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