The Republic, by Plato. Part III.
Great Audiobooks
00:00
The Importance of War in the Age of Socrates
I should like to know how our city will be able to go to war against an enemy who is rich and powerful, if deprived of the sinews of war. There would certainly be a difficulty, I replied, in going to war with one such enemy but there is no difficulty where there are two of them. How so? In the first place, I said, if we have to fight, our side will be trained warriors fighting against an army of rich men. And do you not suppose, at a mantis, that a single boxer who is perfect in his art would easily be a match for two stout and well-to-do gentlemen who were not boxers? Hardly,
Play episode from 07:35
Transcript
