Ship of Theseus Free Audiobook Download by V. M. Straka
In the book, V. M. Straka tells a story of a ship who is built in different parts and then assembled again. The ship was originally built between two different parts but as time progresses and the pieces are being replaced they lose their individual uniqueness. Every part has become a new opportunity to destroy all the previous work the ship had done. The book teaches that humans have that same act of destruction and we cannot be trusted because we are not the same entity as when we first started out.
This audiobook is a gripping story about the danger of misinterpreting historical artifacts. It tells the story of an ancient ship called Theseus, which has been kept in a museum for many years. Each time one set of thieves steal an item from the ship, it is replaced with a similar item. This leads to questions about what is real and what is not among all these items that have been taken out and replaced again and again.
'Ship of Theseus' is about a philosopher that was asked to solve a very complicated riddle. His answer is a ship made of different objects, but every time one is taken away, the others become something else.
In Ship of Theseus, the narrator tells the story of a ship made from different parts of different ships that have been replaced. Throughout the course of the story he comes to realize that no one can be certain exactly how many ships are involved: each part is itself a puzzle and cannot be thoroughly examined.
This is a philosophical novel that questions what it means to be human, and tells the eponymous story of one such man. The first chapter tells the story of a ship, which fragments when it's sunk by a storm and is then discovered in pieces on shore. Each part is given its own title, but this naming convention quickly becomes complicated when the protagonist discovers that some parts from each of his ship's 10 previous voyages had been used to build the present one. Ultimately he concludes that the current ship does not merely have different parts from different ships, it has all its essential characteristics: ambition, determination, honor, and morality.
As a large ship made out of thousands of smaller ships, the "Ship of Theseus" will never have an original element.
Published Date | 2013-11-19 |
Duration | 9 hours 0 minutes |
Author | V. M. Straka |
Narrated | Graeme Malcolm |
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Abridged | No |
Is It Free? | 30-days Free |
Category | Mystery, Thriller & Horror |
Parent Category | Suspense, Action & Adventure, Literary Fiction |