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The 30-second version of landmark books and essays. 293 so far.

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Philosophy

Theaetetus

Plato · philosophical dialogue, c. 369 BCE

Socrates and a brilliant teenage mathematician spend an afternoon trying to define knowledge, and take apart every answer they come up with, including their own.

5 hrs → 50 sec13 Oct
Philosophy

Gorgias

Plato · philosophical dialogue, c. 380 BCE

Socrates corners three defenders of rhetoric in a row, ending with a Macedonian house where the loser of the argument turns out to have the strongest stomach for it.

5 hrs → 50 sec12 Oct
Philosophy

Phaedrus

Plato · dialogue, c. 370 BCE

Two men lie down by a riverbank to read a speech about love, and Socrates ends up arguing that writing itself is a dangerous invention.

3 hrs → 50 sec11 Oct

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