Plato's Republic, Books Five & Six

The Philosophy Documentation Center is pleased to offer dramatized, unabridged versions of philosophical dialogues on audio CD from Agora Publications. In Books Five and Six of The Republic, the quest for justice that has guided the dialogue from the beginning now shifts to the search for an even more encompassing quality—goodness. But what is the nature of goodness? Can human beings know it and teach it to others? How can it be manifested in the republic? To answer such questions requires a genuine lover of wisdom. How can such people be distinguished from those who simply pretend to know? This dramatized version is an adaptation of the Benjamin Jowett translation.

Agora Publications specializes in the production of dramatized philosophical dialogues, which are published in both electronic and print formats. The text of each dialogue is presented in a new translation, helping to bring each work to life for students and non-academic audiences. In the classroom, students have been "extremely enthusiastic. They seemed to feel it was entirely contemporary." The recordings have also been popular with non-academics wishing to explore the basic questions in western philosophy. All of these dialogues are available to individuals on CD, and institutional licensing of the entire collection is available.

· ISBN 1-887250-19-0 · Published in 2001 · audio CD · 2.5 hours · $25

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