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Binding: PaperbackDewey Decimal Number: 321.07 EAN: 9780872207363 Edition: 3rd ISBN: 0872207366 Label: Hackett Publishing Company Manufacturer: Hackett Publishing Company Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 392 Publication Date: September 30, 2004 Publisher: Hackett Publishing Company Studio: Hackett Publishing Company Related Items:
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 Rating:  - Plato republicThis was a Christmas gift for my college age son. Book was in excellent shape and delivered in a timely manner. Rating: - The Noble Lie and the body politicPlato's philosophies regarding how to organize society is very real in today's modern world. The ideas regarding the honor class are clearly seen if one looks closely. I think this book should be required reading at some point in high school--perhaps people would be better able to see the reasoning behind many social structures thereby allowing them to make more informed decisions about what they believe and to whom they consider to be good leaders. Rating: - Many people know about its importance although nowadays, just a few read it!The Republic is a grandiose work, without doubt the most important of Plato and one of the most impressive mankind' s intellectual monuments. Although it has regarded the Republic as the first politic utopia, one must not interpret this book solely as a work that it purposed itself as the description of an ideal State, but, above all as a text disposed to offer norms that, applied to the existent regimes at its historical moment, would rectify its deficiencies, specially in what concerned to Athenian ... Read More Rating: - Thrasymachus was right, Socrates was wrongI just had one brief comment to make, more on the concept of justice as a whole as expounded on in The Republic, rather than on the many other facet's of Plato's classic. Early on in the book there is the famous exchange between Socrates and the Sophist, Thrasymachus. Socrates asks him for his definition of Justice, and Thasymachus responds that "Justice is the interest of the stronger." Socrates then uses his famous eponymous method to seemingly demolish the Sophist's position, ... Read More Rating: - Life in an unreal ideal worldPlato's 'Republic' is one of the most important works of ancient Greek philosophy, and one of the foundation pieces of political science and political philosophy of that and subsequent ages. It was one of the first pieces I read when undertaking a political science degree. Plato was not only a great philosopher, but also a great writer. While few master the classical Greek language sufficient to undertake its study in the original language, the text appears in countless translated forms of varying ... Read More 
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