What it's about

A conversation that starts with a simple question — what is justice? — and ends with a complete theory of the soul, the state, education, and reality itself. The cave is in here, and so is everything the cave is usually quoted without.

Reading plan

Pick a finish date and Genius lays out the days — the plan shows today's target and keeps you honest.

Read together

Start a circle and share the code — everyone sees everyone's honest place in the book. Accountability, not leaderboards.

Who it's for

- Anyone starting on philosophy properly - Readers who enjoy argument as drama - Anyone who wants the whole allegory, not the paraphrase

What’s inside

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BOOK X.
29 min
2
BOOK I. The Republic opens with a truly Greek scene—a festival in
17 min
3
BOOK II. Thrasymachus is pacified, but the intrepid Glaucon insists on
28 min
4
BOOK III. There is another motive in purifying religion, which is to
31 min
5
BOOK IV. Adeimantus said: ‘Suppose a person to argue, Socrates, that
27 min
6
BOOK V. I was going to enumerate the four forms of vice or decline in
17 min
7
Book IV, which fall unperceived on the reader’s mind, as they are
3 min
8
BOOK VI. Having determined that the many have no knowledge of true
36 min
9
BOOK VII. And now I will describe in a figure the enlightenment or
33 min
10
BOOK VIII. And so we have arrived at the conclusion, that in the
38 min
11
BOOK IX. Last of all comes the tyrannical man, about whom we have to
21 min
12
BOOK X. Many things pleased me in the order of our State, but there was
165 min
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BOOK I.
36 min
14
part I openly declare that I am not convinced, and that I do not
20 min
15
BOOK II.
52 min
16
BOOK III.
63 min
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BOOK IV.
52 min
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BOOK V.
63 min
19
BOOK VI.
54 min
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BOOK VII.
52 min
21
BOOK VIII.
51 min
22
BOOK IX.
41 min
23
BOOK X.
53 min

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Who it's for

What’s inside

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