Plato
A Very Short Introduction
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Julia Whelan
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Julia Annas
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This lively and accessible introduction to Plato focuses on the philosophy and argument of his writings, drawing the listener into Plato's way of doing philosophy, and the general themes of his thinking. It looks at Plato as a thinker grappling with philosophical problems in a variety of ways, rather than a philosopher with a fully worked-out system. It includes a brief account of Plato's life and the various interpretations that have been drawn from the sparse remains of information. It stresses the importance of the founding of the Academy and the conception of philosophy as a subject. Julia Annas discusses Plato's style of writing: his use of the dialogue form, his use of what we today call fiction, and his philosophical transformation of myths. She also looks at his discussions of love and philosophy, his attitude to women, and to homosexual love, explores Plato's claim that virtue is sufficient for happiness, and touches on his arguments for the immortality of the soul and his ideas about the nature of the universe.
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The author has her own, sometimes not very orthodox but strongly stated opinions on a lot of more or less Plato-related topics. Few are sketched out, many more cry for some sort of argumentation. Julia Annas gets the basics right, but for everything else, I found this audio book very frustrating and much too superficial.
One example: Ancient Greek philosophy seems at times obsessed with arcane questions concerning "being", "existing", "change" and so on. The difficulties and solutions become a lot less perplexing once you realize that the concept of "existence" only came up in Roman times. In Greek works, "being" as in "existing" and "being something" are not really strictly separated. For a modern English speaker, there is no obvious contradiction between "Unicorns are horse-like creatures" and "there are no unicorns", while for Ancient Greek speakers, such pairs of propositions seem baffling and confusing.
It would have improved the book immensely if Annas hat limited herself to fewer topics and explored them into some depth. In the present form, the book serves more as an introduction to Julia Annas, her times, her views and her social background than to Plato, whose life, times and works serve more or less as illustrations and examples. Again, the correctness of basic facts is not the issue: Even where the book leaves the surface, neither the summaries nor most of the interpretations are outright or obviously wrong, mostly because they are too vague to be even that.
Thus this audio book is not completely bad, it could have been a lot better.
(You'll actually get a better idea of Plato from the aforementioned "Socrates" audio book.)
Mixed bag - at times too vague, too superficial
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Brilliantly thoughtful introduction
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