In this task you will be given a text passage from a trivia quiz. You should choose the category this question belongs to from these categories: History, Science, Social Science, Fine Arts, Literature. You can only choose one category, so if in doubt, please choose the closest match.

Hans-Georg Gadamer argued that the ideal described in this work is heuristic in nature in an essay about this work's author "and the poets. " Books six and seven of this work assert that knowledge is ultimately for the Good, which shines on intelligible essences like the sun. It asserts that love is "a tyrant" over man, and compares imaginative, real, intelligent, and abstract levels of thought to a line divided into four segments. In its first book, Thrasymachus describes justice as "the advantage of the stronger," while its seventh book likens people unaware of Forms to humans viewing shadows on the wall of a cave. For 10 points, name this Platonic dialogue that describes an ideal society.
Social Science

Fascinated in his youth by the sea and ships, he spent two years of his reign traveling throughout Europe learning the techniques of shipbuilding, but upon his return was forced to put down a revolt of the streltsy. Originally joint emperor with his retarded brother Ivan under the regency of his half-sister Sophia, he soon seized power, and later had his son Alexei tortured to death to maintain his rule. His seizure and eventual loss of Azov was his first notable attempt to gain greater maritime access, which was completed with his gain of a section of the Baltic coast, where he founded his new capital, modeled on the Western ideas he forced upon his country. FTP, who was this victor in the Great Northern War who from 1682-1725 ruled Russia
History

One author from this country wrote Bring the Monkey and My Brilliant Career. In this countrys most notable literary hoax, the modernist magazine Angry Penguins devoted an issue to the poetry of Ern Malley before learning that he was a fake. An author from this country wrote Illywhacker, as well as a novel about a minister and an heiress who attempt to build a glass church, Oscar and Lucinda. Another novelist from this country wrote about a German manufacturer who teams up with Itzhak Stern to save a bunch of Jews during the Holocaust in Schindlers Ark. FTP, name this country home to Peter Carey, Thomas Keneally, and Patrick White, whose novel Voss involves a trek across the outback.

Literature