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Alain Badiou, translator of the latest version of Plato's Republic, is writing a screenplay called “The Life of Plato.” And he wants for its leading role none.
In this exciting action film, Plato (Pitt) uncovers a plot by the evil philosopher Testicles (Connery, who has been masquerading as Socrates, whom he has taken.
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What I offer in this section is a deliberately brief explanation of the key features of the forms, the epistemological implications of the theory, and finally a series of criticisms. This is in no way a thorough explanation. Which, ironically, is much like Plato’s own account.

Nowhere in Plato’s work is his theory of the Forms clearly laid out. This is a rather unforgivable oversight. An explanation is that the earliest readers of Plato’s work would have been his very own students. As Plato would have regularly spoken about the Forms, he might have considered it unnecessary to explain in detail the finer points of his theory in text: everyone would have already known it. I’m not all convinced by this proposition. It seems to assume Plato was not writing for posterity. It also begs the question, why would Plato want others to know the ramifications of his central thesis, but not the thesis itself? Anyway, whatever the reasoning, the upshot is that we don’t really understand exactly what Plato means when writes of the Forms. However, we can gather his main thoughts.

As we

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7. Questions about the Ideal Polis: The Three Waves

1Having answered the Republic’s first question, Plato has Socrates immediately start in on its second: ‘whether it is more profitable to act justly, live in a fine way, and be just, whether one is known to be so or not’ (4.445a). Since his method is to work with claims that his interlocutors believe, we might have expected Socrates to pause and ask if anyone has any questions about the definition of justice they have arrived at, but instead he immediately starts in on the Republic’s second question on the final page of Book IV. But as Book V begins, Polemarchus, who has been silent since Book I, jumps back into the fray, piping up with some questions which will lead to a ‘digression’ (8.543c), as Socrates later puts it, that comprises Books V, VI, and VII, taking up about one hundred pages of the Greek text.

2The opening of Book V is subtly but strikingly similar to the opening of Book I, and it is worth pausing to consider Plato’s literary way of making a philosophical point. Book I, readers will remember,

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Alain Badiou, translator of the latest version of Plato’s Republic, is writing a screenplay called “The Life of Plato.” And he wants for its leading role none other than Brad Pitt, supported by Sean Connery as Socrates and Meryl Streep as “Mrs. Plato.”

Writing for Vanity Fair France, Jean Perrier says (via Google Translate):

Incredible but true: Alain Badiou wants to invade Hollywood! More precisely, the communist philosopher is writing the script for a film to its production by U.S. studios. Title: The Life of Plato. The cast: Brad Pitt Plato at different ages. For Mrs. Plato, Meryl Streep. And Socrates, the master of Plato, Sean Connery. Here the cast dreamed thinker of Being and Event. Quite honestly, at first, we thought it was a schoolboy joke post-situ diversion ultimate quest … But Alain Badiou, this is serious. He wants, in his own words, “bring Plato, emblem of universal wisdom in the contemporary temple commercial images, the propaganda machine of American life, the capital of the capitalist corruption Hollywood! “