And the winner is...

Plato's Republic

At the end of this month, we’re going to read Plato’s Republic together. The Republic is traditionally divided into ten books, which gives us a helpful division for working through the text together.

Here’s the schedule:

• March 31: Book I

• April 7: Book II

• April 14: Book III

• April 21: Reading Week

• April 28: Book IV

• May 5: Book V

• May 8: Members-Only Zoom Call, 3PM Eastern

• May 12: Book VI

• May 18: Members-Only Zoom Call, 8PM Eastern

• May 19: Book VII

• May 26: Reading Week

• June 2: Book VIII

• June 9: Book IX

• June 16: Book X

• June 22: Members-Only Zoom Call, 8PM Eastern

To provide a little bit of support for this read-along, Loeb gave me two copies of Plato’s Republic to pass along to subscribers. I asked people to enter in a previous post.

I then picked the winners with the help of a random number generator. Here are the winners:

• Jeff Rensch

• mshedden

Jeff and mshedden, to get your books please email me at jared [at] commonplacemedia [dot] com. I’ll need your mailing address. Don’t send me a message on Substack. I get too many message requests, and so it is easy for me to overlook your message.

To everyone else: I’m excited to read this with you. Even if you’ve never read a work of philosophy before, I exhort you to give this an honest effort. You’ll likely be surprised by the results.

And a hearty thanks to Loeb for their generosity.