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100 1 _aFaguet, Émile,
_d1847-1916
245 1 0 _aPour qu'on lise Platon
264 1 _aSalt Lake City, UT :
_bProject Gutenberg,
_c2025
300 _a1 online resource :
_bmultiple file formats
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337 _acomputer
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_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
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500 _aRelease date is 2025-12-17
508 _aLaurent Vogel (This file was produced from images generously made available by the Polona digital library)
520 _a"Pour qu'on lise Platon" by Émile Faguet is a literary-philosophical essay written in the early 20th century. The work aims to make readers return to Plato by confronting why he is neglected, weighing his defects against his greatness, and proposing a practical way to read him fruitfully. It frames Plato’s thought through his visceral reactions to his time—especially after the death of Socrates—and examines his attacks on Athenians, democracy, sophists, poets, and traditional religion. Expect a lively, polemical guide that mixes close reading with cultural critique and advocacy. The opening of this essay argues that Plato has become “scolaire,” skimmed in classrooms then abandoned, partly because his dialogues are long, repetitious, minutely dialectical, often inconclusive, and studded with obscurities and dated allusions—yet he remains a supreme poet, artist, and orator whose moral passion was ignited by Socrates. The author suggests reading for the large, clear lines of each dialogue, forming a simple overall plan, and only then returning to the texts. He then interprets Plato through his “hatreds” born of Socrates’ execution: disdain for Athenians’ frivolity and for democracy as institutionalized incompetence; a case against “government by laws” when they are either capriciously remade or rigidly inflexible; hostility to sophists as technicians of persuasion indifferent to the good; a sustained attack on poets and the “theatrocracy” for flattering crowds and corrupting morals; and the start of a critique of priests and traditional gods tied to prosecutions for impiety. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
534 _pOriginally published:
_cParis: Société française d'imprimerie et de librairie, 1905
653 _aPlato -- Criticism and interpretation
856 4 _uhttps://polona.pl/preview/6b1ddfdd-e3a2-497f-ab9e-8961e6376d05
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77493
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