Πολιτεία

By Plato and H. D. P Lee

Book Overview

The Republic is a Socratic dialogue, authored by Plato around 375 BC, concerning the order and character of the just city- state, and the just man. It is Plato's best-known work, and has proven to be one of the world's most influential works of philosophy and political theory, hoth intellectually and historically, In the dialogue, Socrates talks with various Athenians and Foreigners about the meaning of justice and whether the just man is happier than the unjust man. They consider the natures of existing regirnes and then propose a scrics of different, hypothetical cities in comparison, culminating in Kallipolis, a utopian city-state ruled by a philosopher-king They also discuss the theory of forms, the immortality of the soul, and the role of the philosopher and of poetry in society. The dialogue's setting seems to be during the Peloponnesian War

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9359907286
• ISBN13: 9789359907284
• Release Date: January 2025
• Publisher: Sonnet Books
• Length: 530 Pages
• Weight: 1.34 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 5.5" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

Very good for an inexpensive translation

I'm wrapping up a semester of teaching this translation of Republic, and I've had few complaints. Waterfield's editorial hand is visible, but that in itself, in the hands of a competent teacher, leads to good discussions above and beyond Plato's ideas. With regards to Plato's masterwork, there's no good place to start save reading it for oneself. Plato is dead wrong in places (with regards to poetry and marriage just to get rolling), but his genius is that he's wrong as an idealist philosopher, encouraging readers to assert and refine their own ideals as counter-arguments. In other words, in order to refute Plato, one must out-Plato Plato. Deconstruction is fine for deconstructionists, but a good discussion of this juggernaut of ancient thought is the life for me.