The Republic (Penguin Classics)

Acknowledged author Plato wrote The Republic (Penguin Classics) comprising 416 pages back in 2007. Textbook and eTextbook are published under ISBN 0140455116 and 9780140455113. Since then The Republic (Penguin Classics) textbook was available to sell back to BooksRun online for the top buyback price of $ 1.26 or rent at the marketplace.

Plato's The Republic is widely acknowledged as the cornerstone of Western philosophy.

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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