Five Dialogues
by Plato · first published 2018
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…"formal defense", i.e. apologia; not regret), Crito, et al — they're shorter, give you a great flavour of Socrates, and will prepare you for the Republic. An excellent English translation here is the Five Dialogues[2], a fine selection by Hackett Publishing. I'm happy that I started with this. [1] There are many English translations; I'll strongly recommend the "Reeve Edition". This translation recasts the entire…
on “Socrates’ Examined Life” ↗…also uses the idea of tacit knowledge to tackle a question from Plato's famous Socratic dialogue, 'Meno': "can virtue be taught?" You can find an excellent English translation of 'Meno' in Hackett's "Five Dialogues"[2] publication. A superb short book with a great selection of five short Platonic dialogues; reading it gives a richer picture of Polanyi's ideas. It[2] also serves as a great intro to Plato. [1]…
on “Tacit knowledge is more important than deliberate practice” ↗…(Csikszentmihalyi, Kahneman, Richard Thaler, Timothy Wilson and many others)." Edit: You can also get far more value by reading one of Plato's dialogues from 2000 years ago, instead. (Start with the excellent "Five Dialogues" selected by Hackett Classics.) [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20082125 [2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36024139 [3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29035998
on “How I Learned to Concentrate” ↗…of law and implicit political contracts with the state), the Euthyphro (the nature of piety), the Meno (the nature of virtue and knowledge), and the Phaedo (the afterlife and universal objects). These five dialogues are from different periods in Plato's writing: the Apology is probably quite early and is a good introduction to Socrates; the Euthyphro is a nice "what is x?" dialogue which comes to no resolution, which…
on “How to read Plato (1995)” ↗