Plato Reading Online Kingston Groups
Plato Reading Online Kingston Groups
The Kingston Plato reading group invite you to join us. We have two reading groups on zoom – one on Tuesday mornings 9.30-10.30am reading Plato’s Republic Book 7 and another on Thursday mornings 9.30-10.30am reading Book 2.
We use the text translated by Dr David Horan, which is freely available on the web at https://www.platonicfoundation.org/ . It is in straightforward modern English. We recommend you read Reading Plato – a guide for beginners – Platonic Foundation before commencing your studies.
These groups meet for approximately 10-week terms. We read a section and then pause to reflect with the aim of simply comprehending what Plato is actually saying before we consider and discuss its implications and relevance to life today. We are not carrying out a comparative academic study, but rather it is enough of an education just to engage with and live with the brilliant mind and wisdom of Socrates and Plato. It is not necessary to have prior knowledge of Plato.
Plato has a way of speaking directly to the soul rather than to this present earthly mortal existence. He provides tools that help us make fundamental decisions about how to act and how to live one’s life. He shows us more about how to think rather than what to think and he asks questions that many will never have considered before. We try to follow with integrity the example of Socrates where he says in the Apology ‘I do not think I know what I do not know.’
The group all find reading these great works very inspiring, the spirit is indeed lifted. New members are most welcome to join. The sessions are free to students enrolled on our Practical Philosophy Course and those who are not enrolled are currently asked to donate a nominal £30 per term. If this is not affordable please let us know because we do not want anyone to be excluded for financial reasons.
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