RepublicThe most important of the Socratic dialogues, the Republic is concerned with the construction of an ideal commonwealth and thus wins its place as the earliest of utopias. |
Contents
PREFACE 9 | 9 |
INTRODUCTION | 13 |
PLATOS The Republic | 23 |
Book I | 25 |
Book III | 82 |
Book IV | 116 |
Book V | 140 |
Book VI | 174 |
A Diagrammatic Rendering and an Explication by the Translators | 203 |
Book VII | 209 |
Book VIII | 235 |
Book IX | 262 |
Book X | 285 |
GLOSSARY of Names and Places in Platos The Republic | 313 |
Common terms and phrases
able Achilles Adeimantus Agamemnon agree appetites argument Asclepius beauty become behavior believe better body Callicles Cephalus certainly Chryses citizens concerned consider course described desires dialectic discussion enemies Eurypylus evil father fear follow further Glaucon gods greatest Greek guardians gymnastic happiness harmony hear Hephaestus Hesiod hold Homer honor human Iliad imitate justice and injustice kind knowledge live look lover matters mean mind myth of Er nature never oligarchic opinion pain Patroclus philosopher philosophic nature Plato pleasure poetry poets Polemarchus praise purpose qualities question reality reason require rule rulers seek Socrates someone soul speak spirit stories studies suffer suppose surely tell temperance things Thrasymachus timocracy tion Trojan War true truth turn tyrant understand unjust virtue wisdom wise women words youth Zeus