The Republic [Audiobook] download free by Plato
- Listen audiobook: The Republic
- Author: Plato
- Release date: 2000/11/8
- Publisher: DOVER PUBLICATIONS INC.
- Language: English
- Genre or Collection: Poetry and Drama
- ISBN: 9780486411217
- Rating: 7.82 of 10
- Votes: 200
- Review by: Anabelle Hinton
- Review rating: 9.22 of 10
- Review Date: 2018/10/26
- Duration: 3H59M43S in 256 kbps (64 MB)
- Date of creation of the audiobook: 2018-08-12
- You can listen to this audiobook in formats: MPEG4, AIFF, FLAC, MP3, WAV, WMA (compression TZ, EML, IMG, ZIP, RAR, RZ)
- Total pages original book: 320
- Includes a PDF summary of 33 pages
- Duration of the summary (audio): 24M18S (6.6 MB)
- Description or summary of the audiobook: Often ranked as the greatest of Plato's many remarkable writings, this celebrated philosophical work of the fourth century B.C. contemplates the elements of an ideal state, serving as the forerunner for such other classics of political thought as Cicero's De Republica, St. Augustine's City of God, and Thomas More's Utopia.Written in the form of a dialog in which Socrates questions his students and fellow citizens, The Republic concerns itself chiefly with the question, 'What is justice?' as well as Plato's theory of ideas and his conception of the philosopher's role in society. To explore the latter, he invents the allegory of the cave to illustrate his notion that ordinary men are like prisoners in a cave, observing only the shadows of things, while philosophers are those who venture outside the cave and see things as they really are, and whose task it is to return to the cave and tell the truth about what they have seen. This dynamic metaphor expresses at once the eternal conflict between the world of the senses (the cave) and the world of ideas (the world outside the cave), and the philosopher's role as mediator between the two.High school and college students, as well as lovers of classical literature and philosophy, will welcome this handsome and inexpensive edition of an immortal work. It appears here in the fine translation by the English classicist Benjamin Jowett.
- Other categories, genre or collection: Social & Political Philosophy, Literary Essays, Anthologies (non-poetry), Western Philosophy: Ancient, To C 500, Political Science & Theory
- Download servers: Uploaded, Torrent, MEGA, Robust Files, BitShare, Mediafire, X Cloud. Compressed in TZ, EML, IMG, ZIP, RAR, RZ
- Format: Paperback
- Approximate value: 5.88 USD
- Dimensions: 16x206x17.27mm
- Weight: 217.72g
- Printed by: Not Available
- Published in: New York, United States
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