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havires  ·  3832 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Choose Your Own Adventure (Philosophy)

I had to use my Google-fu for a second to figure out who came up with the Allegory of the Cave, turns out my initial guess was wrong, it's Plato, not Socrates - I think I had them mixed up. Come to think of it, I think have Plato's Republic in PDF form somewhere, I might read it.

Side bar: I tried to read The Prince by Niccolò Machiavelli and I couldn't understand it. Or rather I didn't understand what he was talking about with that treatise. Are you familiar with it?





OftenBen  ·  3832 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I've read analysis of The Prince, some excerpts, and the full text is on my reading list (Eventually).

So, kinda.

havires  ·  3832 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Back to my initial point about personal research, I think I'm going to look up cliff notes on The Prince as well and see what that's all about.