A Platonic Affair
Otis a number of things appear so obvious when once they have been pointed. out that we rarely give credit (continued on next page)
to the inspiration behind the pointingout. Whoever thought of presenting Plato’s dialogues on radio deserves a bouquet, for they are undoubtedly, in small doses, admirable YC material. The portion named "On Health" (1YC) was as topical as a recorded NZBS discussion, and, it hardly needs saying, contained more common-sense to the minute than most such discussions do to the half-hour. The New Zealand readers, whose names I missed, gave full value to the language, without being too solemn about it. In fact, I thought more than once that there was a note of irony in Glaucon’s "Certainly," and "I agree with you." Perhaps this was only because, although Glaucon has a fair deal to say in The Republic in this dialogue, he sounded like the father of all yes-men. But then he did have something import-.
ant to say "Yes" to.
J.C.
R.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 32, Issue 812, 18 February 1955, Page 10
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170A Platonic Affair New Zealand Listener, Volume 32, Issue 812, 18 February 1955, Page 10
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