[Audiobook] Plato - The Republic
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- English
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- 2008-01-08 17:51:50 GMT
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- rjeong
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Please seed me! Plato, The Republic - 4 Discs (Abridged) http://www.amazon.com/Republic-Non-Fiction-Plato/dp/9626341955 Plato's musings on how society should function, as well as the nature of the people who inhabit society, is read by Bruce Alexander in this abridgment. The recording and Alexander's performance are flawless. A veteran Shakespearean actor, Alexander has a voice that is rich and versatile in portraying each of the speakers in this dialogue. His accent also has an air of authority. He makes one suppose that the ancient Greek philosophers went to Oxford. This work is really delightful to hear as one follows the course of Socrates' arguments and the questions thrown at him by the Athenians. The packaging is sturdy, and the enclosed outline is most helpful. Music at the beginning and end of each side does not distract from the performance. A wonderful introduction to Plato. audio audiobook
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Great! Though abridged, as you said, Alexander is great! Expecting! Thanks!
I'll probably figure it out if I download, but do you know which translation this is? Thanks for putting this up, it's a great find for a starving philosophy major.
The translation is by Tom Griffith. It's pretty good, very 20th-century and colloquial. This is a really good audiobook, except so much of the dialogue is passed over that you don't really get to follow the line of argument across the whole. It's a souvenir of the book, in the same way that (for example) Live/Dead is a souvenir of the Grateful Dead concert experience.
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