Plato's Republic

And this, um, one of the most famous places this stems from is a story at the end of Plato's Republic called the myth of Ur. Ur is this warrior who is about to be burned on the funeral pyre because he just appears to be a dead body.

scale within Plato's Republic. So the whole book, like the whole hundred thousand plus word book is

I think a lot of people have heard of Plato's Republic or the cave analogy or the myth of Earth, but they don't really have a ton of context as to who Plato was, why he did what he did.

And so I want to start kind of at a super baseline level because I think a lot of people, you know, have heard of Plato's Republic or the cave analogy or you know, the myth of Earth, but they don't really have a ton of context as to who Plato was, why he did what he did.

But I think it's interesting that Plato's Republic, the actual question they initiate the dialogue is the question of death. Okay.

Plato's Republic, which he talked about. That is such a fascinating myth. Also kind of I think