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The Republic

The Republic – Book VIII

Plato returns to his discussion of the city and man constitutions in book VIII. Previously he described the ideal philosopher-king/queen and the kallipolis, now he sheds light on four other types of government and people that can result from a city. He also expands on the idea that “everything that comes into being must decay,” […]

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The Republic Book IX, an outline

The chapter beings with Socrates and Adeimantus agreeing on the following premise: -Our dreams, which tend to be immoral, racy or lawless, are the result of appetites that are present in everyone. (571d – 572b) Then they go on to describe each type of man, beginning with the democratic type. They place the king (an […]

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Plato’s Republic: Book III

In Book III of The Republic, Socrates, Glaucon, and Adeimantus extend the concept of the kallipolis introduced in the preceding conversation, establishing several key ideas about the ways in which it is necessary to educate and train the souls and bodies of the city’s “guardians”, how the three classes of peoples within the city are decided […]

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