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  <title><![CDATA[Great Dialogues of Plato]]></title>
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  <default_description>&quot;In Rouse's pages, Soctrates' strength of mind, his dedication to the philosophical truth, are borne in on the modern reader with something of the power that impressed and disturbed the ancient Greeks.&quot;--&lt;i&gt;Time&lt;/i&gt;
&quot;There has been no adequate translation of Plato since Jowett...and I think Rouse has done it.&quot; --Dudley Fitts Rouse is one of the world's most respected classical scholars</default_description>
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  <original_publication_year type="integer">1938</original_publication_year>
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    <body><![CDATA[Of inestimable value as a continuation of Socrates' work, I have to agree with a friend of mine.  Many of the dialogues eventually breakdown to an ancient Greek equivalent of a Victorian gentleman's club, with here-here's all around.]]></body>
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  <read_at>Tue May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Old man Plato has some thought provoking things to say, the most famous being the claim that the life of your average Joe is no better than living in a cave mistaking shadows on the wall for real existence. Plato urges us to value wisdom and reason above all, to use these to achieve an understanding...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/861153">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <date_added>Fri Sep 25 18:42:09 -0700 2009</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[My favorite part of the book so far has got to be Aristophanes speech on the origin of love. It stuck to me so much so, that I even dreamed of people splitting in two!  ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Didn't read it all.  Read selected chapters for a university course.  Some very interesting ideas.  Plato was really into censorship to promote a well ordered society.]]></body>
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  <read_at>Thu Oct 02 11:22:29 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I bought this on my honeymoon after finishing Steve Martin's &quot;Born Standing Up,&quot; and feeling vaguely guilty that the only book I was reading was &quot;The Wolf's Hour&quot; about a Russian born member of the British Secret Service, expert lover and werewolf who is doing covert ops behind e...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/13953479">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="8851548">
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    <body><![CDATA[I have read many of his dialogues about 10X in undergrad, grad, and teaching them.  I used to have the fancy big Collected Dialogues of Plato but I think I borrowed it to a student and never saw it again. <br/><br/>My favorites: Crito, Apology,  Phaedo, and Symposium. <br/><br/>Because the dialo...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/8851548">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="43641886">
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  <date_added>Mon Jan 19 18:06:10 -0800 2009</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[I just really don't think this has aged well... but not many seem to agree.]]></body>
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    <review id="56574433">
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    <body><![CDATA[Good. I read all his dialogues, less the Republic and Laws.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[A must read for all thinking humans.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[From the point of view of philosophy, this is probably the most important book ever written.  But from the point of view of literature, I'd have to say it was a little lacking.  Basically it's Socrates rambling about a ton of things, going off on 100-page tangents, interspersed with his friends brea...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/31963433">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[&quot;Someone will say: And are you not ashamed, Socrates, of a course of life which is likely to bring you to an untimely end? To him I may fairly answer: There you are mistaken: a man who is good for anything ought not to calculate the chance of living or dying; he ought only to consider whether i...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/15038694">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I particularly like the dialogue where Socrates destroys a basically Nietzschean will-and-power view of the world.  I don't care much for his blathering about how he knows the afterlife must exist, but all philosophies have flaws &amp; everyone picks something to believe in.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[ahh, ancient philosophy.<br/>i studied part of some of these in one or two classes in college.  i figured it would be good to have this on hand, so i can work my way through it gradually.  the fact that it only cost me a dollar helped me to make this decision.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[While Rouse's translations of Homer are a little less than desirable, he still is the king of cheap, affordable, easily accessible translations of Plato. My humble guess is that this little book has launched many a false start into Philosophy as a career path...]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Of course this book is a bit thick in its vernacular and hard to fully get with one read through. It is worth the patience, though. A lot of the ideas and points made in later works (all the way up to the present) steal quite a bit from Plato.]]></body>
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    <review id="4665513">
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    <body><![CDATA[Dialogues of Plato basically give you the insight look of Plato thought. The cave theory explaines well the sitauation/reality of idealisme methodelogy that still exsit in this 21st century. It's quite an 'open' dialogue.]]></body>
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    <review id="2882946">
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    <body><![CDATA[The dialogues of Plato, of which this book contains exceot _Republic_ and _Laws_ express the classical Greek ideas agreeing with the ancient Pythagorean ones and Dharmic, Abrahamic and Essene thought, etc.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I'm slowing getting through this one...I picked it up along my line of, &quot;If its been good enough to survive for thousands of years I might as well give it a read.&quot;]]></body>
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