Should I read Phaedo or The Republic?
>>24687613Both and all the rest of Plato
>>24687672Which should you read first?
>>24687750No, I am retarded and can only fit one book in my brain total.
>>24687750I think Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, Phaedo is the standard order for an introduction to Plato. Many more you could read before getting to Republic, but I get that's not for everyone. The Laws is his best dialogue though
>>24687613negation_of_taco_girl.ping
I bought a Romanian translation of The Republic from a train station and it's translated like an old fairy tale, with tenses barely anyone uses anymore and all other types of regionalisms and archaisms. Really upset me
>>24687875>Gets upset when the hegelian witch wants to talk to him
>>24687613I don't understand why anons on this board are so scared to just give a book a go. Neither is a direct sequel to the other and neither will "spoil" what happens in the other one either. Just read one.
>>24688039This. The Republic is much longer, if length is a factor, but if you must read one, just bite the bullet and read one. Flip a coin if you have to.
>>24687875Yeah this is why I started reading all my books in English.
>>24688049Doesn't work either. In some Dostoevsky translations, the plural polite second person pronoun is translated as "you sirs", which definitely doesn't fit the speech of a countryside functionary
>>24687613Phaedo first. But there are some things in the Phaedo you will only be able to understand after you have read the Republic.
>>24688047I half-suspect that what the anons who make these threads are really looking for is just a discussion about either book, but are, for some reason, unable to properly formulate their desires into an opening post, so just settle with this awkward question instead.
>>24687613republic, barnes and noble edition
