# Republic **Author:** Plato **Date Read:** 2019/04/09 **Rating:** 2/5 **Bookshelves:** ## My Review <strong>Classic yes, so what...</strong><br/><br/>Took me a while to finish. I like the whole context, characters/setting etc. but the actual dialectic is rather poor in my opinion. Socrates’s arguments are pretty straightforward and are Insufficiently challenged by the Adiemantus or Glaucon. Some of the arguments (like the ones about the experience of Er in the “afterlife”) are surreal and lack the rationality that Socrates often claims. The timelessness of the text is striking but overall an unexceptional read for me.