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Summary: Book 1. In The Republic, Plato, speaking through his teacher Socrates, sets out to answer two questions: What is justice? and Why should we be just? Book 1 sets up these challenges. The interlocutors engage in a Socratic dialogue similar to that found in Plato’s earlier works.
Summary. Analysis. Socrates walks to the Athens harbor, the Piraeus, with Glaucon, Plato's brother. Socrates and Glaucon are invited to Polemarchus ' house by Polemarchus and Adeimantus. They join Thrasymachus and Polemarchus' father, Cephalus. Socrates asks Cephalus if age is as much a hardship as people say. Cephalus says old age brings peace ...
Book 1. After a religious festival, Socrates is invited to the house of a wealthy merchant named Cephalus. There, Socrates joins a discussion with Cephalus, Polemarchus, Glaucon, Adeimantus, and the Sophist Thrasymachus about the nature of justice. Socrates soon proves that Cephalus and Polemarchus' conception of justice as telling the truth ...
Summary. The dialogue begins with what is apparently a friendly and innocuous conversation between Socrates and Cephalus, in which Socrates asks Cephalus what he has learned from having lived a long life during which Cephalus has managed to acquire a certain amount of money.
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