The Republic
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The Republic
Plato builds a city in speech to find out what justice is.
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Through dialogues centered on Socrates, Plato investigates justice, education, political order, and the character of a good life. An imagined city helps develop the discussion of individuals and society.
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The dialogue begins with a simple question, what is justice, and when the easy answers fail Socrates proposes constructing an ideal city so that justice can be seen at a larger scale. That construction produces the theory of the forms, the allegory of the cave and the argument for philosopher rulers.
It is the foundational work of Western political philosophy, and the cave passage in Book VII is probably the single most influential image in the tradition.
- How the argument moves from justice in a person to justice in a city and back again.
- What the allegory of the cave claims about education, illusion and the discomfort of learning.
- Plato’s division of the soul into three parts, and how the city mirrors it.
- The case for philosopher rulers, and the objections Plato raises against himself.
- Why he wanted the poets excluded, and what that says about art and persuasion.
- How the dialogue form makes the reasoning visible rather than simply stating conclusions.
Book details
- Author
- Plato
- Publisher
- Lexicon Publishing
- Language
- English
- Format
- Paperback
Plato was an ancient Greek philosopher who founded the Academy in Athens, the first institution of higher learning in the Western world. He is known for his dialogues, which explored ethics, politics, metaphysics, and epistemology, and for his theory of Forms. Notable works include 'The Republic', 'Symposium', and 'Phaedo'.
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