Plato's Republic, Books Seven & Eight

The Philosophy Documentation Center is pleased to offer dramatized, unabridged versions of philosophical dialogues on audio CD from Agora Publications. Book Seven of The Republic begins with the famous Allegory of the Cave, an exploration of the natural process of being educated. Socrates and Glaucon probe the meaning of this story both as it relates to the discussion of knowledge and reality developed earlier and to the concept of dialectic, the over-all method of Plato's dialogues. In Book Eight, Socrates and Plato's brothers explore five different kinds of republic and five different kinds of individual, showing how aristocracy becomes timocracy and how oligarchy spawns democracy, ending with the evolution of tyranny. 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 1-887250-22-0 · Published in 1999 · audio CD · 2.5 hours · $25

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