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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]
By Plato. Written 360 B.C.E. Translated by Benjamin Jowett. The Republic has been divided into the following sections: Download: A 664k text-only version is available for download . The Republic by Plato, part of the Internet Classics Archive.
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.
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 · This article, however, focuses on the ethics and politics of Plato’s Republic. For more on what the Republic says about knowledge and its objects, see Plato: middle period metaphysics and epistemology , and for more about the discussion of the poets, see Plato: rhetoric and poetry .
I 1 went down yesterday to the Peiraeus 2 with Glaucon, the son of Ariston, to pay my devotions 3 to the Goddess, 4 and also because I wished to see how they would conduct the festival since this was its inauguration. 5 I thought the procession of the citizens very fine, but it was no better than the show, made by the marching of the Thracian ...
Plato’s strategy in The Republic is to first explicate the primary notion of societal, or political, justice, and then to derive an analogous concept of individual justice. In Books 2, 3, and 4, Plato identifies political justice as harmony in a structured political body.
