The Republic (Plato) | Wikipedia audio article
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The Republic (Plato)


00:00:55 1 Structure
00:01:04 1.1 By book
00:01:12 1.1.1 Book I
00:01:57 1.1.2 Book II
00:04:07 1.1.3 Book III
00:04:54 1.1.4 Book IV
00:07:27 1.1.5 Book V
00:08:26 1.1.6 Book VI
00:09:16 1.1.7 Book VII
00:10:36 1.1.8 Book VIII
00:13:01 1.1.9 Book IX
00:15:49 1.1.10 Book X
00:18:42 1.2 Scholarly views
00:19:02 1.2.1 Bertrand Russell
00:19:49 1.2.2 Cornford, Hildebrandt, and Voegelin
00:25:03 1.2.3 Leo Strauss
00:26:51 2 Topics
00:26:59 2.1 Definition of justice
00:37:27 2.2 Theory of universals
00:40:32 2.3 The dialectical forms of government
00:44:07 3 Reception and interpretation
00:44:17 3.1 Ancient Greece
00:45:07 3.2 Ancient Rome
00:45:15 3.2.1 Cicero
00:46:04 3.2.2 Tacitus
00:46:40 3.2.3 Augustine
00:47:12 3.3 Islam
00:48:24 3.4 Hegel
00:50:38 3.5 20th century
00:50:47 3.5.1 Gadamer
00:51:32 3.5.2 Popper
00:52:46 3.5.3 Voegelin
00:54:00 3.5.4 Strauss and Bloom
00:57:03 3.5.5 Views on the city–soul analogy
00:58:09 3.5.6 Practicality
00:58:47 3.6 21st century
01:00:10 4 Place in Plato's corpus
01:01:02 5 Fragments
01:01:37 6 Translations
01:03:35 7 See also
01:03:44 8 Notes
01:03:52 9 Further reading
01:08:32 10 External links



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"The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing."
- Socrates



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The Republic (Greek: Πολιτεία, Politeia; Latin: Res Publica) is a Socratic dialogue, written by Plato around 380 BC, concerning justice (δικαιοσύνη), the order and character of the just city-state, and the just man.  It is Plato's best-known work, and has proven to be one of the world's most influential works of philosophy and political theory, both intellectually and historically.In the dialogue, Socrates discusses with various Athenians and foreigners about the meaning of justice and whether the just man is happier than the unjust man.  They consider the natures of existing regimes and then propose a series of different, hypothetical  cities in comparison, culminating in Kallipolis (Καλλίπολις), a city-state ruled by a philosopher king.  They also discuss the theory of forms, the immortality of the soul, and the role of the philosopher and of poetry in society.  The dialog's setting seems to be during the Peloponnesian War.