The Republic by Plato
INTRODUCTION AND ANALYSIS.
THE REPUBLIC.
PERSONS OF THE DIALOGUE.
Chapters
- 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