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Here’s your chance to discuss the classic we all have wanted to read but haven’t yet. Plato’s “The Republic” has shaped Western Civilization for more than 2400 years and is often considered the most influential book of western philosophy and civilization. Plato has created a fresh, easy-to-read but profound classic of ideas that discusses in the form of everyday conversations the following and more:

• Justice and its importance

• Ideal state and its decline

• Human nature

• “Allegory of the cave” exposing the journey from ignorance to knowledge

• Education and virtue

• Role of Women

• Individual happiness and the good life

• Aging and the immortality of the soul

Plato raises questions of profound importance to our lives that remain as fresh today and not fully answered as they have for the last 24 centuries. We will have a conversation about one chapter every other week for eight weeks. The true beauty of The Republic is that it “prompts us to reflect on our own times and lives.” Please join us on this epic conversation and journey.

Great Books meets every alternating Monday afternoon from 2-3:30 PM at the Center of Clayton, and one special date of 12/7, for the following 8 sessions:
Sep 21
Oct 5
Oct 19
Nov 2
Nov 16
Nov 30
Dec 7
Dec 14