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"This is a bit of an aside but I have no idea why, with books like this, the introductions are so esoteric. A lot of this stuff is difficult to take in properly if you're not already familiar with Plato - it's a huge historical dumping ground. However, bits of it are good - it's very useful to know the historical order of the dialogues and why they are presented in this order, how they are written." — Oct 17, 2025 05:46AM
"This is a bit of an aside but I have no idea why, with books like this, the introductions are so esoteric. A lot of this stuff is difficult to take in properly if you're not already familiar with Plato - it's a huge historical dumping ground. However, bits of it are good - it's very useful to know the historical order of the dialogues and why they are presented in this order, how they are written." — Oct 17, 2025 05:46AM
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"Really great so far! No excuse for my slowness on reading it to be honest. Very accessible, easy to take notes from, takes note of historic debates where appropriate but rarely if ever gets bogged down in them.
Also makes a very compelling case for this history to be taught more widely, given how knowledge of it ought to be considered essential for any informed voter - yet few know it in nearly as much detail." — Aug 31, 2025 01:07AM
"Really great so far! No excuse for my slowness on reading it to be honest. Very accessible, easy to take notes from, takes note of historic debates where appropriate but rarely if ever gets bogged down in them.
Also makes a very compelling case for this history to be taught more widely, given how knowledge of it ought to be considered essential for any informed voter - yet few know it in nearly as much detail." — Aug 31, 2025 01:07AM
“What, I wondered, did he mean by “society”? The plural of human beings? Where was the substance of this thing called “society”? I had spent my whole life thinkng that society must certainly be something powerful, harsh and severe, but to hear Horiki talk made the words “Don’t you mean yourself?” come to the tip of my tongue. But I held the words back, reluctant to anger him.
‘Society won’t stand for it.’
‘It’s not society. You’re the one who won’t stand for it - right?’
‘If you do such a thing society will make you suffer for it’
‘It’s not society. It’s you, isn’t it?’
‘Before you know it, you’ll be ostracized by society.’
‘It’s not society. You’re going to do the ostracizing, aren’t you?’
Words, words of every kind went flitting through my head. “Know thy particular fearsomeness, thy knavery, cunning and witchcraft!” What I said, however, as I wiped the perspiration from my face with a handkerchief was merely, “You’ve put me in a cold sweat!” I smiled.
From then on, however, I came to hold, almost as a philosophical conviction, the belief: What is society but an individual?”
― No Longer Human
‘Society won’t stand for it.’
‘It’s not society. You’re the one who won’t stand for it - right?’
‘If you do such a thing society will make you suffer for it’
‘It’s not society. It’s you, isn’t it?’
‘Before you know it, you’ll be ostracized by society.’
‘It’s not society. You’re going to do the ostracizing, aren’t you?’
Words, words of every kind went flitting through my head. “Know thy particular fearsomeness, thy knavery, cunning and witchcraft!” What I said, however, as I wiped the perspiration from my face with a handkerchief was merely, “You’ve put me in a cold sweat!” I smiled.
From then on, however, I came to hold, almost as a philosophical conviction, the belief: What is society but an individual?”
― No Longer Human
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