The Republic of Plato
By Plato
Classic work by Plato.
Table of Contents
composite animal in Book IX is an allegory of the parts of the soul. The noble captain and the ship and the true pilot in Book VI are a figure of the relation of the people to the ...
of the goddess Bendis which is held in the Piraeus; to this is added the promise of an equestrian torch-race in the evening. The whole work is supposed to be recited by Socrates on...
on continuing the argument. He is not satisfied with the indirect manner in which, at the end of the last book, Socrates had disposed of the question 'Whether the just or the unjus...
banish fear; for no man can be courageous who is {xl} afraid of death, or who believes the tales which are repeated by the poets concerning the world below. They must be gently req...
valetudinarian (405), the satirical jest about the maxim of Phocylides (407), the manner in which {lvi} the image of the gold and silver citizens is taken up into the subject (416 ...
you make your citizens miserable, and this by their own free-will; they are the lords of the city, and yet instead of having, like other men, lands and houses and money of their ow...
inferior, *442* will be harmonized by the influence of music and gymnastic. The counsellor and the warrior, the head and the arm, will act together in the town of Mansoul, and keep...
in states, when Polemarchus--he was sitting a little farther from me than Adeimantus--taking him by the coat and leaning towards him, said something in an undertone, of which I onl...
being, and have no clear patterns in their minds of justice, beauty, truth, and that philosophers have such patterns, we have now to ask whether they or the many shall be rulers in...
unenlightenment of our nature:--Imagine human beings living in an underground den which is open towards the light; they have been there from childhood, having their necks and legs ...
perfect State wives and children are to be in common; and the education and pursuits of men and women, both in war and peace, are to be common, and kings are to be philosophers and...
there is no place for them in a constitutional State, and that they are too clever not to see the propriety of their own expulsion; the continuous image of the drones who are of tw...
enquire, Whence is he, and how does he live--in happiness or in misery? There is, however, a previous question of the nature and number of the appetites, which I should like to con...
was nothing which I liked better than the regulation about poetry. The division of the soul throws a new light on our exclusion of imitation. I do not mind telling you in confidenc...
belongs to an age which has passed away. But it contains many fine passages and thoughts which are for all time. The short treatise de Monarchia of Dante is by far the most remark...
_PERSONS OF THE DIALOGUE._ Socrates, _who is the narrator_. Cephalus. Glaucon. Thrasymachus. Adeimantus. Cl...
[Sidenote: _Republic II._ Socrates, Glaucon.] *357A* With these words I was thinking that I had made an end of the discussion; but the end, in truth, proved to be only a beginning...
[Sidenote: _Republic III._ Socrates, Adeimantus.] [Sidenote: The discouraging lessons of mythology.] *386A* Such then, I said, are our principles of theology--some tales are to b...
[Sidenote: _Republic IV._ Adeimantus, Socrates.] [Sidenote: An objection that Socrates has made his citizens poor and miserable:] *419A* Here Adeimantus interposed a question: Ho...
[Sidenote: _Republic V._ SOCRATES, GLAUCON, ADEIMANTUS.] [Sidenote: The community of women and children.] *449A* Such is the good and true City or State, and the good and true ma...
[Sidenote: _Republic VI._ Socrates, Glaucon.] *484A* And thus, Glaucon, after the argument has gone a weary way, the true and the false philosophers have at length appeared in vie...
[Sidenote: _Republic VII._ Socrates, Glaucon.] [Sidenote: The den, the prisoners; the light at a distance;] *514A* And now, I said, let me show in a figure how far our nature is ...
Observe, Glaucon, that there will be no injustice in compelling our philosophers to have a care and providence of others; we shall explain to them that in other States, men *520B* ...
[Sidenote: _Republic VIII._ Socrates, Glaucon.] [Sidenote: Recapitulation of Book V.] *543A* And so, Glaucon, we have arrived at the conclusion that in the perfect State wives an...
[Sidenote: _Republic IX._ Socrates, Adeimantus.] *571A* Last of all comes the tyrannical man; about whom we have once more to ask, how is he formed out of the democratical? and ho...
[Sidenote: _Republic X._ Socrates, Glaucon.] *595A* Of the many excellences which I perceive in the order of our State, there is none which upon reflection pleases me better than ...