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This lively and accessible intro to Plato focuses on the philosophy and debate of his writings, pulling the listener into Plato's way of doing philosophy, and the overall topics of his thinking. This isn't an audiobook to leave the listener standing in the outside court of intro and qualifications information, but leads directly into Plato's debate. It looks at Plato as a thinker grappling with philosophical problems in many ways, rather than philosopher with a fully worked-out system. It includes a brief bank account of Plato's life and the various interpretations which may have been attracted from the sparse remains of information. It strains the importance of the founding of the Academy and the conception of philosophy as a subject. Julia Annas talks about Plato's design of writing: His use of the dialogue form, his use of whatever we today call fiction, and his philosophical change of misconceptions. She also looks at his discussions of love and philosophy, his attitude to women, also to homosexual love, explores Plato's claim that virtue is enough for contentment, and touches on his quarrels for the immortality of the heart, and his ideas about the nature of the world.
