Just plucked Allan Bloom's 1968 translation of The Republic off the shelf and read his introduction, where he explains that he has attempted a meticulous word for word translation of Plato's text, without inclusion of modern words, which he believes can only be deviant from any meaning that Plato intended.
"The Beautiful and the Good"
"The Beautiful and the Good"
"The Beautiful and the Good"
Just plucked Allan Bloom's 1968 translation of The Republic off the shelf and read his introduction, where he explains that he has attempted a meticulous word for word translation of Plato's text, without inclusion of modern words, which he believes can only be deviant from any meaning that Plato intended.