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3.0
It is difficult to objectively score this one, given that it is incomplete.
I have not yet read the Timaeus (which this appears to be a continuation of), and ao I may be lacking a touch of necessary prior information or discourse.
Not too much to take from this from a philosophical standpoint. It describes Atlantis, a story generationally passed down and which had been twice translated.
It mentions that as man moved away from divine nature and more humanly (the Atlanteans being of divine blood, slowly saturated by mortal blood over generations) their deeds became less virtuous - (a rough summary, I admit). This angered/disgusted the gods. Sadly, the discourse ends just as Zeus' judgment was to be recorded.
I have not yet read the Timaeus (which this appears to be a continuation of), and ao I may be lacking a touch of necessary prior information or discourse.
Not too much to take from this from a philosophical standpoint. It describes Atlantis, a story generationally passed down and which had been twice translated.
It mentions that as man moved away from divine nature and more humanly (the Atlanteans being of divine blood, slowly saturated by mortal blood over generations) their deeds became less virtuous - (a rough summary, I admit). This angered/disgusted the gods. Sadly, the discourse ends just as Zeus' judgment was to be recorded.
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