The RepublicThe Republic is Plato's most famous work and one of the seminal texts of Western philosophy and politics. The characters in this Socratic dialogue - including Socrates himself - discuss whether the just or unjust man is happier. They are the philosopher-kings of imagined cities and they also discuss the nature of philosophy and the soul among other things. |
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Page 9
... become invisible in the individual reappears at length in the ideal State which is constructed by Socrates. The first care of the rulers is to be education, of which an outline is drawn after the old Hellenic model, providing only for ...
... become invisible in the individual reappears at length in the ideal State which is constructed by Socrates. The first care of the rulers is to be education, of which an outline is drawn after the old Hellenic model, providing only for ...
Page 26
... becomes more dogmatic and constructive, passing beyond the range either of the political or the speculative ideas of the real Socrates. In one passage Plato himself seems to intimate that the time had now come for Socrates, who had ...
... becomes more dogmatic and constructive, passing beyond the range either of the political or the speculative ideas of the real Socrates. In one passage Plato himself seems to intimate that the time had now come for Socrates, who had ...
Page 58
... becomes the ignorant, I must learn from the wise— that is what I deserve to have done to me. What, and no payment! a pleasant notion! I will pay when I have the money, I replied. SOCRATES - THRASYMACHUS - GLAUCON But you have, Socrates ...
... becomes the ignorant, I must learn from the wise— that is what I deserve to have done to me. What, and no payment! a pleasant notion! I will pay when I have the money, I replied. SOCRATES - THRASYMACHUS - GLAUCON But you have, Socrates ...
Page 95
... become enemies to one another and to the just They will. And suppose injustice abiding in a single person, would your wisdom say that she loses or that she retains her natural power? Let us assume that she retains her power. Yet is not ...
... become enemies to one another and to the just They will. And suppose injustice abiding in a single person, would your wisdom say that she loses or that she retains her natural power? Let us assume that she retains her power. Yet is not ...
Page 96
... become its own enemy and at variance with all that opposes it, and with the just? Is not this the case? Yes, certainly. And is not injustice equally fatal when existing in a single person; in the first place rendering him incapable of ...
... become its own enemy and at variance with all that opposes it, and with the just? Is not this the case? Yes, certainly. And is not injustice equally fatal when existing in a single person; in the first place rendering him incapable of ...
Contents
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31 | |
104 | |
Book III | 168 |
Book IV | 248 |
Book V | 317 |
Book VI | 401 |
Book VII | 469 |
Book VIII | 533 |
Book IX | 601 |
Book X | 658 |
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