Plato's Republic, Books Nine & Ten

The Philosophy Documentation Center is pleased to offer dramatized, unabridged versions of philosophical dialogues on audio CD from Agora Publications. The concluding books of Plato's Republic reveal the entire dialogue in a new perspective. In Book Nine the nature and goodness of the soul and its true relationship to public life are considered. Socrates returns to Glaucon's earlier challenge to justify the claim that a just life is superior to an unjust life. He does that by showing the life of tyrants compared to a life devoted to the love of wisdom. In Book Ten the role of poetry and the other arts are examined and placed in the overall context of the best human life. The dialogue concludes with the Myth of Er, a story about a warrior who is killed in battle, travels to another world, and returns to tell a wonderful tale about life and death. 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 1-887250-24-7 · Published in 2001 · audio CD · 2.5 hours · $25

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