Plato's Republic

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Description

In the Republic Plato uses numerous dialogues between Socrates and various characters in Athens to discuss the nature of government, including the nature of justice, the happiness of the just and the unjust man, the nature of rule in the ideal city-state, and other matters essential to understanding classical philosophy such as the theory of forms, the immortality of the soul, poetry and the role of the philosopher in society. As with most other texts in the Focus Philosophical Library, this translation is close to the original, non-interpretative, with the notes and glossary intending to provide the reader with some sense of the terms and the concepts as they were understood by Plato’s immediate audience. The extensive introduction is by Joe Sachs, who has taught for over three decades in the Great Books program at St Johns College in Annapolis. It also contains an extensive afterword, Imitation, by John White.

Features

A chapter-by-chapter outline of principal speakers and summary of the content, Stephanus numbers, boldface type to indicate the entrance of a new speaker into the discussion, footnotes, and glossary of key terms with cross-references for the text.

Market

This text is designed specifically for courses in humanities, core curriculum, philosophy, history of philosophy, political philosophy and for the general reader.

About the Authors

Joe Sachs taught for thirty years at St. John's College in Annapolis, Maryland.  He has translated Aristotle's Physics, Metaphysics and On the Soul and, for the Focus Philosophical Library, Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics and Poetics as well as Plato's Theaetetus and Republic.

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