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Guide to the classics: Plato’s Republic
Western philosophy is a series of footnotes to Plato, the old saying goes.
And The Republic (c. 375 BCE), featuring Plato’s teacher Socrates in dialogue with several friends, is unquestionably central to Plato’s thought.
- Matthew Sharpe
- The Conversation
There are few subjects that Plato’s masterpiece does not touch or play on: political theory, education, myth, psychology, ethics, epistemology, cultural criticism, drama and comedy.
Little surprise then, that The Republic continues to be …