Plato's Republic as an iMessage conversation
TheRepublic.txt is an iMessage style interface designed to present Plato's Republic for a modern audience.
"I had a few great teachers and a lot of mediocre teachers. And the thing that probably kept me out of jail was books. Because I could go read what Aristotle wrote or what Plato wrote. And I didn't have to have an intermediary in the way. And a book was a phenomenal thing. It got right from the source to the destination without anything in the way."
Steve Jobs
I've always found The Republic the most approachable of the major works of philosophy. Even so, some translations can be a struggle.
It made me think: is there a better way to read the classics?
The result: a iMessage interface that presents The Republic in a fresh way.
I call it TheRepublic.txt. It includes both the Original and Modern translations of each of the ten books in The Republic. When you first load a conversation, you're presented with an iMessage style interface, and chat bubbles load on the page based on who's speaking.
This was a fun project, and I'll probably expand it to other works that I find interesting. Let me know if you have any suggestions.