The Republic by Plato
INTRODUCTION AND ANALYSIS.
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THE REPUBLIC.
PERSONS OF THE DIALOGUE.
Chapters
1. Chapter 1
2. INTRODUCTION AND ANALYSIS.
3. INTRODUCTION AND ANALYSIS.
4. Introduction to the Phaedrus).
5. BOOK I. The Republic opens with a truly Greek scene—a festival in
6. BOOK II. Thrasymachus is pacified, but the intrepid Glaucon insists on
7. BOOK III. There is another motive in purifying religion, which is to
8. 1. The constant appeal to the authority of Homer, whom, with grave
9. 2. ‘The style is to conform to the subject and the metre to the style.’
10. 3. In the third book of the Republic a nearer approach is made to a
11. 4. Plato makes the true and subtle remark that the physician had better
12. 5. One of the most remarkable conceptions of Plato, because un-Greek
13. 6. Two paradoxes which strike the modern reader as in the highest
14. 7. Lesser matters of style may be remarked.
15. BOOK IV. Adeimantus said: ‘Suppose a person to argue, Socrates, that
16. BOOK V. I was going to enumerate the four forms of vice or decline in
17. Book IV, which fall unperceived on the reader’s mind, as they are
18. BOOK VI. Having determined that the many have no knowledge of true
19. 1. Of the higher method of knowledge in Plato we have only a glimpse.
20. 2. Plato supposes that when the tablet has been made blank the artist
21. 3. There is no difficulty in seeing that Plato’s divisions of knowledge
22. BOOK VII. And now I will describe in a figure the enlightenment or
23. BOOK VIII. And so we have arrived at the conclusion, that in the
24. BOOK IX. Last of all comes the tyrannical man, about whom we have to
25. 1. Plato’s account of pleasure is remarkable for moderation, and in
26. 2. The number of the interval which separates the king from the tyrant,
27. 3. Towards the close of the Republic, Plato seems to be more and more
28. BOOK X. Many things pleased me in the order of our State, but there was
29. 1. Plato expressly says that he is intending to found an Hellenic State
30. 2. The idea of the perfect State is full of paradox when judged of
31. introduction of the mere conception of law or design or final cause,
32. 3. Plato’s views of education are in several respects remarkable; like
33. 4. We remark with surprise that the progress of nations or the natural
34. 5. For the relation of the Republic to the Statesman and the Laws, and
35. 6. Others as well as Plato have chosen an ideal Republic to be the
36. 7. Human life and conduct are affected by ideals in the same way that
37. 8. Two other ideals, which never appeared above the horizon in Greek
38. BOOK I.
39. part I openly declare that I am not convinced, and that I do not
40. BOOK II.
41. BOOK III.
42. BOOK IV.
43. BOOK V.
44. BOOK VI.
45. BOOK VII.
46. BOOK VIII.
47. Introduction.) two perfect squares of irrational diameters (of a square
48. BOOK IX.
49. BOOK X.
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