Alcibiades 1 by Plato ~ Full Audiobook [philosophy]

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07/25/22

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140m

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Alcibiades 1 by Plato audiobook.

Genre: philosophy

As Jowett relates in his brilliant introduction, 95% of Plato's writing is certain and his reputation rests soundly on this foundation. The Alcibiades 1 appears to be a short work by Plato with only two characters: Socrates and Alcibiades. This dialogue has little dramatic verisimilitude but centres on the question of what knowledge one needs for political life. Like the early dialogues, the question is on whether the virtues needed by a statesman can be taught, on the importance of self-knowledge as a starting point for any leader. While this may be only partially the work of Plato, or even not his at all, Jowett favoured the work with his magisterial translation and appears to favour its inclusion in the canon of true works.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 01

(00:27:48) Chapter 02

(01:05:38) Chapter 03

(01:48:49) Chapter 04

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July 25, 2022

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The Adventures of Sally by P. G. Wodehouse audiobook.

Genre: comedy

Sally Nicholas is young, broke, and irrepressibly cheerful, earning her keep in New York as a taxi dancer and living in a theatrical boarding house where everyone has big dreams and thin wallets. Then, on her twenty-first birthday, she inherits a tidy fortune and suddenly has the one thing her friends have always lacked: choices. Sally imagines a sensible new life and maybe even a trip abroad, but money has a way of attracting trouble, especially when her pompous, overconfident brother Fillmore decides he is destined for greatness and begins chasing risky schemes. Meanwhile, Sally is edging toward an engagement with Gerald Foster, an aspiring playwright who talks like a genius and works like a man always about to start. When Sally heads for Europe, her good intentions and new independence collide with a whirl of transatlantic complications: theatrical hustlers, social climbers, and eligible Englishmen who see her fortune before they see her. In the middle of it all is an awkward, likable redheaded Englishman nicknamed Ginger, plus a cousin with very different ideas about what Sally should do next. Wodehouse turns inheritance, ambition, and romance into a fast, sparkling comedy of manners about learning who is worth rescuing and who is best left to their own chaos.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 01

(00:39:12) Chapter 02

(01:30:54) Chapter 03

(01:58:21) Chapter 04

(02:08:13) Chapter 05

(02:25:40) Chapter 06

(03:13:28) Chapter 07

(03:19:55) Chapter 08

(03:44:15) Chapter 09

(04:01:04) Chapter 10

(04:45:58) Chapter 11

(05:03:24) Chapter 12

(05:22:23) Chapter 13

(06:05:44) Chapter 14

(06:51:09) Chapter 15

(07:03:10) Chapter 16

(07:46:44) Chapter 17

(08:14:16) Chapter 18

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Laws by Plato ~ Full Audiobook [philosophy]

July 25, 2022

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1046m

Laws by Plato audiobook.

Genre: philosophy

Plato's Laws is his longest and most practical dialogue, a searching conversation about what it takes to build a just city when human beings are imperfect. On a hot walk across Crete toward the cave of Zeus, three older men - an unnamed Athenian Stranger, the Cretan lawgiver-to-be Cleinias, and the Spartan Megillus - set themselves an ambitious task: to design the laws, institutions, and civic culture for a new colony they hope to found. Moving from broad questions of virtue and education to the gritty details of courts, property, marriage, religion, military training, and even the social uses and dangers of wine, they test how ideals can survive contact with habit, desire, and political reality. The dialogue explores how legislation shapes character, why persuasion must accompany coercion, and how a community can balance freedom, order, piety, and reason. Less a utopia than a blueprint for governance, Laws invites listeners into a patient, argumentative workshop where philosophy becomes civic architecture.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 01

(00:39:17) Chapter 02

(01:22:54) Chapter 03

(02:32:50) Chapter 04

(03:16:19) Chapter 05

(03:58:48) Chapter 06

(05:00:35) Chapter 07

(06:06:17) Chapter 08

(06:59:50) Chapter 09

(07:50:03) Chapter 10