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A review by smarcorodriguez
Plato Republic by G.M.A. Grube, C.D.C.Reeve
4.0
Plato's Republic in Ten Lines:
Book I: Just because you’re really mean Thrasymachus, doesn’t mean you’re right, ya big bully. Just give me nine more books and I’ll prove you wrong… sort of?
Book II: Let’s build the perfect city. It’ll be full of guardians, who are kinda like philosophers, who are kinda like dogs.
Book III: In the perfect city, the only music we’ll allow is the stuff they play in hotel lobbies, and our food will be bland so that you don’t eat too much. Also we’ll make up stories of where this perfect city came from even though they’re not true.
Book IV: In the perfect city, everyone will know their place.
Book V: In the perfect city we’ll use eugenics to engineer a master race, and use religion as a drug to keep the masses under our control. (Doesn’t this city sound swell!?)
Book VI: The perfect city will be ruled by a musical aristocrat with a good memory.
Book VII: Education is about discovering who you are and becoming your true self. You do you, Soul!
Book VIII: There’s a lot of different ways to rule a city. A king is the best and a tyrant is the worst, but democracy and equality are pretty bad too.
Book IX: Inside every tyrant is a slave who didn’t listen to his master.
Book X: The poets are a buncha crybabies, not like us manly men philosophers. Don’t cry: for your sins on earth your soul will experience hundreds of years of torment in an endless cycle of reincarnation. Have a nice lifes.
Book I: Just because you’re really mean Thrasymachus, doesn’t mean you’re right, ya big bully. Just give me nine more books and I’ll prove you wrong… sort of?
Book II: Let’s build the perfect city. It’ll be full of guardians, who are kinda like philosophers, who are kinda like dogs.
Book III: In the perfect city, the only music we’ll allow is the stuff they play in hotel lobbies, and our food will be bland so that you don’t eat too much. Also we’ll make up stories of where this perfect city came from even though they’re not true.
Book IV: In the perfect city, everyone will know their place.
Book V: In the perfect city we’ll use eugenics to engineer a master race, and use religion as a drug to keep the masses under our control. (Doesn’t this city sound swell!?)
Book VI: The perfect city will be ruled by a musical aristocrat with a good memory.
Book VII: Education is about discovering who you are and becoming your true self. You do you, Soul!
Book VIII: There’s a lot of different ways to rule a city. A king is the best and a tyrant is the worst, but democracy and equality are pretty bad too.
Book IX: Inside every tyrant is a slave who didn’t listen to his master.
Book X: The poets are a buncha crybabies, not like us manly men philosophers. Don’t cry: for your sins on earth your soul will experience hundreds of years of torment in an endless cycle of reincarnation. Have a nice lifes.