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Republic

Plato

Recommended by 3 people on the record.

The bar next to each date shows how long ago it was said: 7d is days, 4yr is years.

Rebecca Newberger Goldstein recommends it
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.

on fivebooks.com · 25 Oct 2017 · Report

Luciano Floridi recommends it
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.

on fivebooks.com · 5 Feb 2015 · Report

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That little bar

It says how long ago something was said, so you can tell last month from 2014 without doing the arithmetic. Full and green is recent; it drains and cools as the date gets older, and empties completely at about 6 years.

A striped bar means the date itself is an estimate — the source did not carry an exact one. An entry with no date at all gets no bar.