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The Republic

The Original Unabridged and Complete Edition (Plato Classics)

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The Republic is a Socratic dialogue, authored by Plato around 375 BCE, concerning justice, the order and character of the just city-state, and the just man. It is Plato's best-known work, and one of the world's most influential works of philosophy and political theory, both intellectually and historically.

In the dialogue, Socrates discusses the meaning of justice and whether the just man is happier than the unjust man with various Athenians and foreigners. He considers the natures of existing regimes and then proposes a series of hypothetical cities in comparison, culminating in Kallipolis, a utopian city-state ruled by a philosopher-king. They also discuss ageing, love, theory of forms, the immortality of the soul, and the role of the philosopher and of poetry in society. The dialogue's setting seems to be the time of the Peloponnesian War.

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The sound is very bad, with echo and very quiet, it's not even possible to listen to it. Horrible naration so that I don't even know what the book is about. Do not buy, it's a waste of money

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The narration of Chapter 1 was fine for audio quality, but when chapter 2 started it had a bit of a tinny echo to it. I then checked some of the other chapters and found the same issue in some of them. The narrator isn't bad, but doesn't bring the text to life. This combination meant I had to give up listening.

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