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Ascent to the Good - The Reading Order of Plato's Dialogues from Symposium to Republic (Hardcover)
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Ascent to the Good - The Reading Order of Plato's Dialogues from Symposium to Republic (Hardcover)
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At the crisis of his Republic, Plato asks us to imagine what could
possibly motivate a philosopher to return to the Cave voluntarily
for the benefit of others and at the expense of her own personal
happiness. This book shows how Plato has prepared us, his students,
to recognize that the sun-like Idea of the Good is an infinitely
greater object of serious philosophical concern than what is merely
good for me, and thus why neither Plato nor his Socrates are
eudaemonists, as Aristotle unquestionably was. With the
transcendent Idea of Beauty having been made manifest through
Socrates and Diotima, the dialogues between Symposium and
Republic-Lysis, Euthydemus, Laches, Charmides, Gorgias, Theages,
Meno, and Cleitophon- prepare the reader to make the final leap
into Platonism, a soul-stirring idealism that presupposes the
student's inborn awareness that there is nothing just, noble, or
beautiful about maximizing one's own good. While perfectly capable
of making the majority of his readers believe that he endorses the
harmless claim that it is advantageous to be just and thus that we
will always fare well by doing well, Plato trains his best students
to recognize the deliberate fallacies and shortcuts that underwrite
these claims, and thus to look beyond their own happiness by the
time they reach the Allegory of the Cave, the culmination of a
carefully prepared Ascent to the Good.
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