The Republic by Plato

Chapter 1

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Chapter 1 Ch.1
INTRODUCTION AND ANALYSIS. Ch.2
INTRODUCTION AND ANALYSIS. Ch.3
Introduction to the Phaedrus). Ch.4
BOOK I. The Republic opens with a truly Greek scene—a festival in Ch.5
BOOK II. Thrasymachus is pacified, but the intrepid Glaucon insists on Ch.6
BOOK III. There is another motive in purifying religion, which is to Ch.7
1. The constant appeal to the authority of Homer, whom, with grave Ch.8
2. ‘The style is to conform to the subject and the metre to the style.’ Ch.9
3. In the third book of the Republic a nearer approach is made to a Ch.10
4. Plato makes the true and subtle remark that the physician had better Ch.11
5. One of the most remarkable conceptions of Plato, because un-Greek Ch.12
6. Two paradoxes which strike the modern reader as in the highest Ch.13
7. Lesser matters of style may be remarked. Ch.14
BOOK IV. Adeimantus said: ‘Suppose a person to argue, Socrates, that Ch.15
BOOK V. I was going to enumerate the four forms of vice or decline in Ch.16
Book IV, which fall unperceived on the reader’s mind, as they are Ch.17
BOOK VI. Having determined that the many have no knowledge of true Ch.18
1. Of the higher method of knowledge in Plato we have only a glimpse. Ch.19
2. Plato supposes that when the tablet has been made blank the artist Ch.20
3. There is no difficulty in seeing that Plato’s divisions of knowledge Ch.21
BOOK VII. And now I will describe in a figure the enlightenment or Ch.22
BOOK VIII. And so we have arrived at the conclusion, that in the Ch.23
BOOK IX. Last of all comes the tyrannical man, about whom we have to Ch.24
1. Plato’s account of pleasure is remarkable for moderation, and in Ch.25
2. The number of the interval which separates the king from the tyrant, Ch.26
3. Towards the close of the Republic, Plato seems to be more and more Ch.27
BOOK X. Many things pleased me in the order of our State, but there was Ch.28
1. Plato expressly says that he is intending to found an Hellenic State Ch.29
2. The idea of the perfect State is full of paradox when judged of Ch.30
introduction of the mere conception of law or design or final cause, Ch.31
3. Plato’s views of education are in several respects remarkable; like Ch.32
4. We remark with surprise that the progress of nations or the natural Ch.33
5. For the relation of the Republic to the Statesman and the Laws, and Ch.34
6. Others as well as Plato have chosen an ideal Republic to be the Ch.35
7. Human life and conduct are affected by ideals in the same way that Ch.36
8. Two other ideals, which never appeared above the horizon in Greek Ch.37
BOOK I. Ch.38
part I openly declare that I am not convinced, and that I do not Ch.39
BOOK II. Ch.40
BOOK III. Ch.41
BOOK IV. Ch.42
BOOK V. Ch.43
BOOK VI. Ch.44
BOOK VII. Ch.45
BOOK VIII. Ch.46
Introduction.) two perfect squares of irrational diameters (of a square Ch.47
BOOK IX. Ch.48
BOOK X. Ch.49