Philosophy
The Republic
Read it in the Library After Dark Or read it as plain textA conversation about justice somehow expands to cover the ideal state, the nature of knowledge, and a cave full of prisoners mistaking shadows for the whole of reality. Socrates asks the questions; everyone else discovers, too late, that agreeing with him is a trap laid with great courtesy. I have never finished shelving this one without rearranging at least one other book afterward.
The librarian
- Reading time
- About 14 hr 30 min
- Where to find it
- On the Philosophy shelves
- Edition
- Project Gutenberg, eBook #1497. In the public domain in the United States.