Why did Plato call his main character Socrates? If he simply

>>1822433
>How is he honoring his dead friend by giving him views he never had?
Maybe because that wasn't his real goal?

>>1822433

Read Hobbes and Locke, then Rawls and Nozick for some standard cannon stuff. Hit up Cohen's "Rescuing Justice and Equality", Dworkin's "Sovereign Virtue", and Otsuka's "Libertarianism without Inequality"... for some further reading into egalitarianism and left libertarianism.

- that was most of the reading for a grad seminar I took.

>>1822433
Plato wasn't the first to write dialogues with Socrates as a main character, and was situating himself in a particular literary genre, that of the logoi sokratikoi.

Basically, start Plato over, begin with the Alcibiades, then move forward through his early dialogs, until you reach the Meno. Pause there, read Vlastos' "Socrates: Ironist and Moral Philosopher", and then enter the realm of the mature thought of Plato. Exit his works with the Timaeus/Laws.

Move on to Plotinus, then Porphyry, Iamblichus, and exit with Proclus.

>>1822860
>logoi sokratikoi
Scholars have speculated for years about an early gospel containing just logoi or sayings of Jesus Christ. This sayings of Socrates genre kind of throws some light into how the Jesus cult could have developed.

>>1823046
Mathew, Mark and Luke were all basically lads.

But John knew some of the classics and ripped Plato off to basically build all of Christian dualism / divine rules.

>>1822860
OP here, sorry I took so long to reply

Thanks for the recommendations, but I believe I understand Republic quite well, at least on a surface level. How exactly does it build on earlier work?