The Republic

The Original Unabridged and Complete Edition (Plato Classics)

De: Plato

Narrado por: Jeffrey Ito

The Republic is a Socratic dialogue, authored by Plato around 375 BCE, concerning justice, the order and character of the just city-state, and the just man. It is Plato's best-known work, and one of the world's most influential works of philosophy and political theory, both intellectually and historically.

In the dialogue, Socrates discusses the meaning of justice and whether the just man is happier than the unjust man with various Athenians and foreigners. He considers the natures of existing regimes and then proposes a series of hypothetical cities in comparison, culminating in Kallipolis, a utopian city-state ruled by a philosopher-king. They also discuss ageing, love, theory of forms, the immortality of the soul, and the role of the philosopher and of poetry in society. The dialogue's setting seems to be the time of the Peloponnesian War.

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Hard to listen to

Sound quality is bad. Reader does not project well. Doesn’t help with an already difficult book.

I'd prefer reading it myself.

The reader seemed unfamiliar with the text. The reader's lack of inflection suggested someone who was reading words without an understanding of their context. The reader's cadence was hesitant and lacked natural flow, stopping at odd intervals in a way that, coupled with the poor inflection was painful to listen to. Pronunciations were a struggle, and recording quality was inconsistent throughout. Acceptable diction of individual words.

Sound is awful

The audio sounds like it was recorded in an empty room with the mic too far away. Lots of echo and weak clarity. It needs tighter mic placement and better room treatment.

The book itself was good but narration is terrible

Review is for the audible quality. Terrible the guy sounded like he read the whole book while in the bathroom it was hard to understand due to the reverb and echo. His pacing of sentences was also very stilted. Only recommend this despite it being free for audible members.

Hard to Listen To - So I Missed a Lot of the Story

I found this to be the most difficult audiobook to listen to of more than 200 that I've listened to on Audible.

Perhaps to give it a Statesmanly air, it sounded to me a bit like it was recorded in a place with an echo.
And that reverb effect, or whatever the name for it is, made it difficult to hear well.

Or perhaps the intent was to give the feeling we were listening to Plato Orate in a Public Square.

Whatever the intent was, I missed a lot of the Content, because of how hard I found it to keep listening attentively.