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vongoose's review against another edition
challenging
informative
inspiring
reflective
medium-paced
5.0
what Plato does with this words is something amazing.
The reader is engage right from the start with no change of leaving.
Too me a while to fully understand the book. I thinks is the type of reading you need to take a few days after to reflect and maybe discuss with someone else
The reader is engage right from the start with no change of leaving.
Too me a while to fully understand the book. I thinks is the type of reading you need to take a few days after to reflect and maybe discuss with someone else
lucylovesfantasy's review against another edition
5.0
Pretty based for a Plato book but Socrates was sometimes really an Ahole, but all the other times he was really a chad tbh
theos_bookcase's review against another edition
4.0
4.5/5 stars
This was actually quite good. I swear Socrates has a thing for Callicles...but anywaaaaay lol
I'm surprised I actually liked this because honestly I'd never pick this up had it been for assigned reading...but good choice VCCAA
The conversation between Socrates and Callicles was quite funny because it was just arguing the entire time and I know philosophy isn't about argument in the sense of emotional disagreement but it felt like fighting... the sass within this is funny if you can read it from an immature lens like me hahahaha
This was actually quite good. I swear Socrates has a thing for Callicles...but anywaaaaay lol
I'm surprised I actually liked this because honestly I'd never pick this up had it been for assigned reading...but good choice VCCAA
The conversation between Socrates and Callicles was quite funny because it was just arguing the entire time and I know philosophy isn't about argument in the sense of emotional disagreement but it felt like fighting... the sass within this is funny if you can read it from an immature lens like me hahahaha
ebeeb's review against another edition
4.5
What can one say about Plato? It’s got it all — slave morality vs the decadent tyrant, the many vs the individual, fundamental questions about how we should live. He is not successful in answering Callicles’s question about why the powerful should not live corruptly (without recourse to the soul and an afterlife) but no one else has gotten any closer in the 2,000 years since it was written so I think we can give him a pass.
charliecoldwell's review against another edition
informative
slow-paced
3.0
A book with interesting discussions on justice, however it isn't anything we haven't seen elsewhere in other Plato dialogues. There are certainly interesting points in this book, but it suffers worse than most Plato works with the "yes Socrates" dynamic with the other characters. They barely ever challenge Socrates' views past the first section of the book. Interesting ideas, but probably one of Plato's weaker works.