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Republic ( Greek: Πολιτεία, translit. Politeia; Latin: De Republica [1]) is a Socratic dialogue, authored by Plato around 375 BC, concerning justice ( δικαιοσύνη ), the order and character of the just city-state, and the just man. [2]
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Apr 26, 2024 · The Republic is a dialogue by the ancient Greek philosopher Plato that dates from his middle period. It features the character of Socrates. The Republic is among Plato’s masterpieces as a philosophical and literary work, and it has had a lasting influence.
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The Republic. Since the mid-nineteenth century, the Republic has been Plato’s most famous and widely read dialogue. As in most other Platonic dialogues the main character is Socrates. It is generally accepted that the Republic belongs to the dialogues of Plato’s middle period. In Plato’s early dialogues, Socrates refutes the accounts of ...
Apr 1, 2003 · As this overview makes clear, the center of Plato’s Republic is a contribution to ethics: a discussion of what the virtue justice is and why a person should be just.
Written 360 B.C.E. Translated by Benjamin Jowett. The Introduction. The Republic of Plato is the longest of his works with the exception of the Laws, and is certainly the greatest of them.