Emma Weinheimer and Joshua Hochschild interview John Hersey about Plato's Republic.

Dr. Hersey is a professor of Philosophy at Mount St. Mary's University.

0:00 Context

8:30 Justice

14:30 Book One

21:00 Thrasymachus

26:30 Personality

29:45 Cave Allegory

38:45 Return to the Cave

43:05 Relation to Justice

48:50 Cardinal Virtues

54:10 Totalitarian?