How Long to Read Ascent to the Beautiful

How Long Does it Take to Read Ascent to the Beautiful?

It takes the average reader 10 hours and 41 minutes to read Ascent to the Beautiful by William H. F. Altman

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

With Ascent to the Beautiful, William H. F. Altman completes his five-volume reconstruction of the Reading Order of the Platonic dialogues. This book covers Plato’s elementary dialogues, grappling from the start with F. D. E. Schleiermacher, who created an enduring prejudice against the works Plato wrote for beginners. Recognized in antiquity as the place to begin, Alcibiades Major was banished from the canon but it was not alone: with the exception of Protagoras and Symposium, Schleiermacher rejected as inauthentic all seven of the dialogues this book places between them. In order to prove their authenticity, Altman illuminates their interconnections and shows how each prepares the student to move beyond self-interest to gallantry, and thus from the doctrinal intellectualism Aristotle found in Protagoras to the emergence of philosophy as intermediate between wisdom and ignorance in Symposium, en route to Diotima’s ascent to the transcendent Beautiful. Based on the hypothesis that it was his own eminently teachable dialogues that Plato taught—and bequeathed to posterity as his Academy’s eternal curriculum—Ascent to the Beautiful helps the reader to imagine the Academy as a school and to find in Plato the brilliant teacher who built on Homer, Thucydides, and Xenophon.

How long is Ascent to the Beautiful?

Ascent to the Beautiful by William H. F. Altman is 619 pages long, and a total of 160,321 words.

This makes it 209% the length of the average book. It also has 196% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Ascent to the Beautiful Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 14 hours and 36 minutes to read Ascent to the Beautiful aloud.

What Reading Level is Ascent to the Beautiful?

Ascent to the Beautiful is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

Note that there may be other factors that effect this rating besides length that are not factored in on this page. This may include things like complex language or sensitive topics not suitable for students of certain ages.

When deciding what to show young students always use your best judgement and consult a professional.

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