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The Republic
Contributor(s): Jowett, Benjamin (Translator), Ballin, G-Ph (Editor), Plato (Author)

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 ISBN: 1543168493     ISBN-13: 9781543168495
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
OUR PRICE: $30.35  

Binding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: February 2017
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BISAC Categories:
- Language Arts & Disciplines
- Philosophy | Reference
Lexile Measure: 1060
Physical Information: 1.05" H x 6" W x 9" L (1.52 lbs) 522 pages
 
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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; the 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, the 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, and not of one age only but of all. Nowhere in Plato is there a deeper irony or a greater wealth of humour or imagery, or more dramatic power. Nor in any other of his writings is the attempt made to interweave life and speculation, or to connect politics with philosophy. The Republic is the centre around which the other Dialogues may be grouped; here philosophy reaches the highest point (cp, especially in Books V, VI, VII) to which ancient thinkers ever attained. Plato among the Greeks, like Bacon among the moderns, was the first who conceived a method of knowledge, although neither of them always distinguished the bare outline or form from the substance of truth; and both of them had to be content with an abstraction of science which was not yet realized.
 
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