- Paperback: 320 pages
- Publisher: Hackett Publishing Company (1992)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0872201368
- ISBN-13: 978-0872201361
- Product Dimensions: 21.4 x 13.6 x 2.2 cm
- Shipping Weight: 259 g
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #138,591 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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On his way back from the Piraeus, where he has been attending a religious festival, Socrates meets Polemarchus and goes with him to the house of his aged father, Cephalus (327a-328b). Read the first page
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On his way back from the Piraeus, where he has been attending a religious festival, Socrates meets Polemarchus and goes with him to the house of his aged father, Cephalus (327a-328b). Read the first page
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Gerald F. Devlin,
By Jerry Devlin=Gerald F. Devlin (Kailua, HI United States) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Plato: Republic (Paperback)
I have used this text for five years with 10th - 12th grade students. At first there was borderline panic among a few and caution with the rest. Most students had an initial guess that we were going to spend a semester discussing a utopian city. But their interest perked up when it hit them early in the reading that the aim of The Republic "...concerns no ordinary topic but the way we ought to live (352d)." Grube' s translation seems to grow on students. He is clear and concentrates rather than dilutes meanings. When we arrived at the section defining school as "the craft concerned with doing this very thing, this turning around, and with how the soul can most easily and effectively be made to do so...(518d)," one student exclaimed, "My eight bucks was the best investment I made in a book."
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The Foundation of Most Subsequent Western Though,
By Boll Spiedoff (Poland) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Plato: Republic (Paperback)
Plato's "Republic" is probably the most important work in the history of Western Philosophy, or atleast I believe it is. The reader can literally flip from page to page counting how many subsequent philosphies arose from interpretations of the words on each page. Of all Western Philosophers, Plato was one of the greatest writers. Even though some readers may find the dialogue style exhausting, I find it enjoyable because it turns the real-life participants in the arguments into literary characters who can, at times, be quite humorous. All literary merits aside, the overabundance of profound thoughts to be found in "The Republic" make it a must-read for anyone who likes to think.
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The Bedrock of Modern Philosophy,
By "the_kenosha_kid" (Kenosha, Wisconsin) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Plato: Republic (Paperback)
In the "Republic," Plato may or may not have accomplished what he set out to do, which is to define justice and prove that it is superior to injustice, irregardless of either's consequences. However, what he DID do is set the foundation for over two thousand years of thought. Read this work slowly; within each of the seemingly-simple discussions there is a world of though to be discovered. Anyone with the least bit of background in philosophical readings can literally read page-by-page, discovering the sources of many of the greatest philosophers of all-time. The "Republic" is not so much a work of literature as it is an explosion of thought; a ten-book brainstorm of one of the greatest minds of all-time. By the work's end, whether or not you feel Socrates to have successfully answered Glaucon's challenge is almost irrelevant, for the argument will have already left your mind reeling.
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