The Republic by Plato
Always visible content "The Republic" by Plato is a Socratic dialogue written around 375 BC. Through conversations between Socrates and various Athenians, the work explores the meaning of justice and whether the just person is happier than the unjust. Socrates examines existing forms of government and proposes an ideal city-state ruled by philosopher-kings. The dialogue ranges across profound questions: the nature of the soul, the role of poetry, love, aging, and the purpose of political Hidden checkbox to control the toggle Clickable label to show more The extra text that is initially hidden Clickable label to show less power itself. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
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Chapters (49)
- 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
