The Republic Πλάτων

Release: , Language: English, Status: Official
Format: , Tracks: 61, Length: 4:49:16, Barcode: [none]
Release type: Other - Audiobook

Contents

#1
1 I went down to piraeus yesterday with Glaucon 4:23
2 With pleasure, Cephalus 3:53
3 What would you say is the greatest benefit you have derived from your possession of great wealth? 2:19
4 Polemarchus 'Inherits the Discussion' on the Definition of Justice 3:10
5 All right then. When people are unwell... - the just man 9:44
6 Thrasymachus Takes Control of the Argurment 5:16
7 Thrasymachus: Some cities are tyrannies, some are democracies and others aristocracies 5:06
8 Socrates: It's neither hear nor there, Polemarchus, I said 8:19
9 Glaucon Puts the Argument for Injustice 3:57
10 Glaucon: The Legend of Gyges the Lydian 7:16
11 Socrates Defends Justice 3:26
12 Socrates: The origin of a city lies... In that we are not, any of us, self-sufficient 7:10
13 Socrates: In which case, whre exactly are justice and injustice to be forund in it. 4:53
14 The origin of war and the need for guardians - soldiers 7:29
#2
1 Socrates: Which of these people are to rule, and which to be ruled? 6:03
2 The full guardians and the auxiliaries, the defenders of the rulers' beliefs 0:42
3 The Phonenician story and the training of the auxiliaries 9:21
4 The four elements of a city which is wholly good: wisdom, courage, self-discipline and justice 0:58
5 Wisdom 3:14
6 Courage 0:41
7 Self-discipline 5:19
8 Justice 3:11
9 The role of the classes in society - the skilled worker or businessman; the warriers; the guardian/rulers 3:40
10 The rational and the spirited 6:04
11 Socrates: Which is more profitable: just actions, good behaviour... or unjust actions and be unjust 3:10
12 Adeimantus raises the question of the role of women in society 9:40
13 Socrates continues the discussion 4:49
14 The situation of children 3:50
15 Socrates: the greatest good...and the greatest evil... in the organisation of our city 5:30
16 On campaign with the children 5:54
17 The treatment of the enemy - enslavement? 4:39
#3
1 A model of justice and a model of injustice 3:21
2 Socrates: There is no end to suffering... unless either philosophers become kings... or kings... become philosophers 3:47
3 The training of the rulers 2:13
4 Glaucon: Yes, he said. It is a good idea to find that out 2:55
5 Socrates: ...the most important branch of study is the form or character of the good 4:52
6 The faculty of sight 3:09
7 Socrates: This is what you must take me to mean by the child of the good 4:35
8 The ruler of what can be understood and the ruler of what can be seen 7:07
9 The metaphor of the community in the cave 9:03
10 Returning to every day life after the contemplation of the divine 3:50
11 In which case, Glaucon, you should bear in mind 4:04
12 The agreed characteristics of the city 1:22
13 The four regimes of rule: The Cretan or Spartan (honor-loving - timocracy), oligarchy, democracy, tryanny 4:02
14 Timocracy or timarchy 7:27
15 I imagine the next regime... Oligarchy 7:07
#4
1 Democracy 5:15
2 ...That leaves us with the task of describing... tryanny 8:20
3 Socrates: What prompts the change from champion to tyrant? 9:41
4 The verdict: The best... is the one who is most kingly, the one who is king over himself 1:26
5 A second proof - the three parts of the soul: pleasure, desire, rule 3:36
6 Here are three men... 3:39
7 Glaucon: Explain, please, why pleasure is a shadow-picture 3:12
8 Socrates: Do you know what sort of thing these pleasures and pains are then 6:19
9 Socrates: A great prize is at state, Glaucon...for being good rather than bad 3:48
10 The tale of Er, the son of Armenius 5:04
11 A new journey to the light - and eight whorls 4:11
12 ...when they arrived they had to go immediately before Lachesis 2:21
13 Choice: the middle way 4:35
14 This choice of lives amoung the various souls... 4:08
15 Socrates: Practice justice with wisdom 1:19