The Republic [Audiobook- Book I : Part 1]
The Republic is an influential treatise of
political science by the Greek philosopher Plato,
written in approxmately 390 BC. The dialogue concerns what is called
philosophia peri ta anthropina (philosophy of the human things) and it
encompasses the areas of economics, political sociology, political
philosophy, ethics, justice and knowledge.
The political ideas are
presented through a paradigm of the good city which is the ground of a
manifold of historical city-states differing in grade and declining in
quality from its origin. While Plato's conclusion may appear that the
ideal community is ruled by philosophers, his actual intent is the
education of the haughty and headstrong Glaucon, a staunch aristocratic
type that may represent a threat to the continuation of
Athenian political life through his force of will. It is one of the cornerstones of Western philosophy.
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