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RepublicBook

by Plato

Who uses, recommends or left Republic, in their own words: each a verbatim quote with a link to where it was said.

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Nigel Warburton
British philosopher and writer; co-host with David Edmonds of the podcast Philosophy Bites; author of Philosophy: The Basics (1992) and A Little History of Philosophy (2011).
recommended

Now, that doesn’t give you any idea of why it’s called Republic.

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Rebecca Newberger Goldstein
American philosopher and novelist; author of The Mind-Body Problem (1983), Incompleteness (2005), on Gödel, and Plato at the Googleplex (2014); MacArthur Fellow in 1996.
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His Republic is the most famous of his dialogues, and it’s the first work I recommend to understand the origins of the project of applying reason—our ability to perceive logical connections, explore the implications of our beliefs—to the problems of knowing how best to live.

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Luciano Floridi
Italian-British philosopher of information and digital ethics; founding director of the Digital Ethics Center at Yale University and professor at the University of Bologna; author of The Fourth Revolution.
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The point I try to glean from that particular feature in the great architecture of the Republic is the following: some people have their attention captured constantly by social media – it could be by cats on Facebook.

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Every entry is a verbatim quote and a link to the public post it came from. Nothing is paraphrased. If it is not on record somewhere public, it is not here.

The verdict is what they actually said: loved and liked are explicit; recommended means they told others to get it; uses means they only say they use it; read is a book on their public shelf with no verdict; mixed and disliked are kept too.

A dashed affiliate link, sponsored or their own label means the post disclosed a relationship. It is shown, never hidden.

The shading behind a date shows how dated a recommendation is for its kind of thing.

The shading behind a date shows how dated a recommendation is, for its kind of thing. Fully green is recent. It drains a quarter at a time as the post gets older, and is empty once it reads as dated.

What counts as old depends on the thing. A laptop praised four years ago has been replaced twice; a book loved twenty years ago is probably still loved. The shading is gone after about:

Stripes mean the post carries no date and the date shown is an estimate. No date at all, no shading.