Plato's Republic

By: Plato

Narrated by: Ray Childs

The Republic poses questions that endure: What is justice? What form of community fosters the best possible life for human beings? What is the nature and destiny of the soul? What form of education provides the best leaders for a good republic? What are the various forms of poetry and the other arts, and which ones should be fostered and which ones should be discouraged? How does knowing differ from believing?

Several characters in the dialogue present a variety of tempting answers to those questions. Cephalus, Polemarchus, Thrasymachus, and Glaucon all offer definitions of justice. Socrates, Glaucon, and Adeimantus explore five different forms of republic and evaluate the merits of each from the standpoint of goodness.

Two contrasting models of education are proposed and examined. Three different forms of poetry are identified and analyzed. The difference between knowing and believing is discussed in relation to the objects of each kind of thinking.

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Good narration

The voice acting was very engaging and enjoyable. Easy to follow and fun to listen to.

Excellent

Very good acting or theater play breathing life into a dialogue that demands to be taken as a living writing.

Amazing like ever

Still and will last as my favorite book. Amazing time and I noticed that Ray is really good.

Challenging, but Brilliant!

I listened intently to this version of Plato's Republic. When you listen for the first time, you will think that Socrates is taking all sorts of tangents in his effort to define "justice." Hang in there, and pay attention. You'll be rewarded if you do.

I got the gist of the book, but I honestly needed to feed ChatGPT my perspective of this book and have some back and forth before I fully understood what Plato was saying. It would have helped if I had better understood who Plato and Socrates were. I was not aware that while Socrates was a real person, Plato was fabricating this discussion and placing Socrates as his character in the debate to illustrate Plato's concept of justice and various republics. Once I understood this, I better understood the ideas that Plato was attempting to communicate. I am blown away by how relevant ideas written in 375 BCE are to our modern lives. The idea of how a Republic illustrates our own character and vice versa is brilliant. I especially loved the allegory about the shadows in the cave and the progression of republics from the Aristocracy to the Tyranny.

Excelente actuación

El libro en si puede ser un poco tedioso, sobre todo si no eres muy filosófico. Para mí por lo menos, fue perfecta opción para Audiobook, los lectores te mantienen atento, si lo hubiera tratado de leer no creo que lo hubiera terminado.