The Republic Paperback - 2000
by Plato
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Readers largely found The Republic dense, intimidating, and slow to get through, with several relying on rereads and external sources. Many praised its probing inquiry into justice and knowledge, the rigor of Socratic questioning, and the enduring resonance of the Allegory of the Cave. Yet they balked at its utopian politics—communitarian strictures, censorship of poets, and eugenic suggestions—with some saying they wouldn’t want to live in such a state. While some questioned its practical value, others deemed it enlightening and worth the effort.
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This celebrated philosophical work of the fourth century B.C. contemplates the elements of an ideal state, serving as the forerunner for such other classics of political thought as Cicero's De Republica, St. Augustine's City of God, and Thomas More's Utopia.
Written in the form of a dialog in which Socrates questions his students and fellow citizens, The Republic concerns itself chiefly with the question, "What is justice?" as well as Plato's theory of ideas and his conception of the philosopher's role in society. To explore the latter, he invents the allegory of the cave to illustrate his notion that ordinary men are like prisoners in a cave, observing only the shadows of things, while philosophers are those who venture outside the cave and see things as they really are, and whose task it is to return to the cave and tell the truth about what they have seen. This dynamic metaphor expresses at once the eternal conflict between the world of the senses (the cave) and the world of ideas (the world outside the cave), and the philosopher's role as mediator between the two.
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- Title The Republic
- Author Plato
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Dover edition
- Pages 288
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Dover Publications, Mineola, New York, U.S.A.
- Publication date 2000-04-18
- ISBN 9780486411217 / 0486411214
- Weight 0.48 lbs (0.22 kg)
- Dimensions 8.26 x 5.18 x 0.68 in (20.98 x 13.16 x 1.73 cm)
- Age range 14 to UP years
- Grade levels 9 - UP
- Reading level 1060
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- Chronological Period: Ancient (To 499 A.D.)
- Cultural Region: Greece
- Category Philosophy
- Library of Congress subjects Political science, Utopias
- Library of Congress Catalogue Number 99056941
- Dewey Decimal Code 321.07
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