TY  - BOOK
AU  - Plato.
AU  - Cornford,Francis Macdonald
TI  - The Republic of Plato
SN  - 0195003640
AV  - JC71 .P35 1945
U1  - 320.011 21
PY  - 1945///]
CY  - London
PB  - New York, Oxford University Press
KW  - Political science
KW  - Early works to 1800
KW  - Utopias
N1  - "First published by Oxford University Press, London, 194l. First issued as an Oxford University Press paperback, 1945"--T.p. verso; LC copy: 82nd printing; Includes bibliographical references and index
N2  - Presented in the form of a dialogue between Socrates and three different interlocutors, it is an inquiry into the notion of a perfect community and the ideal individual within it. During the conversation other questions are raised: what is goodness; what is reality; what is knowledge? The Republic also addresses the purpose of education and the role of both women and men as "guardians" of the people. With remarkable lucidity and deft use of allegory, Plato arrives at a depiction of a state bound by harmony and ruled by "philosopher kings."
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