Kevin’s Reviews > Plato's Critique of Impure Reason: On Goodness and Truth in the Republic > Status Update

Ultimately, he says, truth and power must coincide. But the only way for them to coincide is for the ruling office to be imposed on one who has renounced it, that is, to be a thing received rather than seized. The fact that socrates expresses no interest in politics makes him, in Plato’s eyes, the “perfect candidate” for ruler: Plato thus “imposes” rule on Socrates by making him the founder of the ideal city.

Amazing book. Masterpiece.

This is seriously competing with the Ethics of Beauty as my favorite book. I almost can't believe a book like this (and the Republic) was written, it's so beautiful. I think of Christ at every page. I believe that Plato saw clearly the logical necessity of the Incarnation.

This is the best of what the West has to offer to the world: clear expression of the most paradoxical and mind-blowing truths.

Book 1 takes place in the cave

Loved the introduction, it's already very promising; living up to the high expectations I have formed from continually hearing great things about this book