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To the Editor:
David Guaspari, in his review of Overcoming Math Anxiety by Sheila Tobias [Books in Review, October 1994], is of course right to note that Tobias errs in describing Plato’s Republic as “Socrates’ best-known treatise on government” and in identifying it as his Dialogue, but he goes overboard in characterizing this error as “a serious cultural failing” and a “howler.”
Unless, that is, he is prepared to make the same criticism of Allan Bloom’s analysis. At the very outset of the interpretive essay accompanying his translation of the Republic, Bloom writes: “The Republic is the true Apology of Socrates, for only in the Republic does he give an adequate treatment of the theme which was forced on him by Athens’s accusation against him.”
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