The Republic by Plato - Free Audiobook

I first read about half of this book several years ago and loved it. I always wanted to finish it. I've been getting into audiobooks lately, but I haven't seen an unabridged audiobook version. This podcast is an amazing find. The reader has an EXTREMELY annoying voice, but you start to get used to it after about 10 minutes. Considering the fact that this collection is both free and complete, it deserves a strong rating in spite of the irritating reading. Get about 10 minutes into it - after the intro is over and the philosophical dialog begins - and you may just start to like it. Plato used a really upbeat and colloquial way of writing his Socratic dialogs. After all, a dialog is a casual two-way conversation, and Plato writes the dialogs of Socrates in such a manner.

This is entirely different from reading Jovett’s Plato, quite refreshing. I do not understand how other commentators have disliked the narrator’s authoritative and expressive reading. To me, he has a just voice that does justice to the work, though I certainly bow to others’ far more informed opinions. However, I do have one question…

Great quality, reader has the perfect voice for this work

Any that might of read and had a hard time getting through it should listen to this and then it would make our understanding of what knowledge is and with that it can only make ourselves better to each other. I appreciate this podcast only recommendation is to have different voices for each individual in this discussion .. lastly for those who didn’t understand why they didn’t follow the numerical book they did it to not confuse the listeners too much. as from this book it’s to gently take the image of a person that was in a cave unable to turn their head... keep trying and you will get the light :)