The Republic

By Plato

Book Id: WPLBN0000079549
Format Type: PDF eBook
File Size: 1.7 MB
Reproduction Date: 2005

Title:	The Republic
Author:	Plato
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Language:	English
Subject:	Literature, Literature & thought, Writing.
Collections:	Classic Literature Collection
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Publisher:	World Ebook Library


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THE INTRODUCTION: THE Republic of Plato is the longest of his works with the exception of the Laws, and is certainly the greatest of them. There are nearer approaches to modern metaphysics in the Philebus and in the Sophist; he Politicus or Statesman is more ideal; the form and institutions of the State are more clearly drawn out in the Laws; as works of art, he Symposium and the Protagoras are of higher excellence. But no other Dialogue of Plato has the same largeness of view and the same perfection of style; no other shows an equal knowledge of the world, or contains more of those thoughts which are new as well as old...

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