>its quite likely that that secondary survey provides links to more recent primary sources than Plato himself, which you would otherwise be ignorant of. That i

>its quite likely that that secondary survey provides links to more recent primary sources than Plato himself, which you would otherwise be ignorant of. That is the only advantage of secondary sources. Telling you that guy X and Y wrote about Z. But if you want to learn about Z, go read what those guys actually wrote. If you don't understand a particular concept, word, or whatever, then do a research in secondary material available. >literature could leave you confused and without some kind of historical context. Specially in recent (basically anything written in the last 50 years) secondary sources I heavily dispense with comments on "historical context" as they are full of bs, and are heavily politically biased, one way or another, not necessarily in fields like Mathematics, but in History or Philosophy, etc.