Be honest Is plato worth reading or would a wikipedia summary

>>9470640
Plato was a plagiarist, you should read Socrates instead.

>>9470640
>suffice
Suffice for what?
being a pseud?

Plato is worth reading if only because he was a great writer. He's like the reverse Spinoza/Kant (who were brilliant minds who wrote unintelligible garbage)

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>>9470640
It is... almost... okay to skip Plato. But not quite. You would be well served by Plato while reading Aristotle. Everything after is its own deal.

>>9470642
kek

>>9470651
This, too. Plato gave us Socrates, and Socrates was pretty funny. He BTFO nearly everyone. Reading the Socratic dialogues is 50/50 identifying fallacies and watching pseuds get their comeuppance. Skip it if you want, but you're missing out. Especially if you are a fan of classics/Greeks.

reading fiction is useless

the only thing more useless is philosophy

>>9470661
>>/lgbt/

>>9470664
lol? You dumb fuck

YA is dominated by coping trans subhumans and faggots

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>re-read plato regularly and his method of relentless pursuit of an idea will raise your IQ
t. schopenhauer somewhere in the manuscript remains

While we are on the subject, has anyone read "The Cave and the Light"? I've been meaning to read it for a while now.

>>9470640

Read it because it's beautiful.
Also, if you know Greek, he has achieved perfection of prose in that language.

>>9470651
>tfw Socrates starts a random dialogue for no reason in the middle of someone else's speech and his friends tell him to stop being a faggot
Plato is winking at me.