> On Aug 31, 11:09 am, BretCah...@peoplepc.com wrote:
>

>>> Hi. What book or books would you recommend on philosophy as a whole? I
>>> mean a kind of textbook, a survey, an introduction. I just don't know a
>>> good one.

>

>> Supposedly _The Republic_ is recommended if you want a one book
>> library.  Basically Socrates attacks of all the decadent hypocrisy in
>> ancient Athens.

>
> Oh please.  Basically in _The Republic_ Plato
> equivocates on the definition of the word "justice"
> to make apologies for a Spartan, 1984-with-a-
> happy-face, State.  Everyone prefers the earlier
> dialogues.
>

>> Later Heller did the same in _Picture This_.

>
> Oh, please.  Everyone knows that Heller's
> masterpiece is _Catch-22_, after which he
> simply jumped the shark, as the saying goes.
> It's incredible how someone who could write
> Catch-22, which is one of the funniest novels
> of the twentieth century, could only rise to
> the level of the uninspired yawn-fests his
> works since have been.  The wonder of the
> one-hit wonder.