The Republic

>>8585958
you don't have to buy it because it's open source obviously but, yeah, read it

>>8585965
>open source
i'm not sure that's what it's called

>>8585991
Public domain.

>>8585958
>>8585965
Still worth buying because people will think you're a pleb if you don't have it on your shelf.

>>8586005
>people will think X or Y

Grow up, child.

Philosophy is bunk and Plato is the moron who started it all. Fuck no.

>>8586145
spbp

>>8586131
>implying this is not how the world works
>implying making a better impression is not usually advantageous
You have it the wrong way round, it's children that haven't fully learned this yet.

>>8586268
>he didn't learny anything from plato's teachings

>>8586268
>I am in danger at this moment of not having a philosophical attitude about this, but like those who are quite uneducated, I am eager to get the better of you in argument, for the uneducated, when they engage in argument about anything, give no thought to the truth about the subject of discussion but are only eager that those present will accept the position they have set forth. I differ from them only to this extent: I shall not be eager to get the agreement of those present that what I say is true, except incidentally, but I shall be very eager that I should myself be thoroughly convinced that things are so...

>>8586360
Who said that?

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>>8585965
>he read some shitty translation on a computer screen
>it doesn't even have annotations

>>8587221
Take a guess.

>>8587250
Plato? Socrates?