7/6/2023 0 Comments The Republic by Plato![]() ![]() ![]() And we are to infer that any proposed changes in the policy of effecting justice in any state would have to meet the criteria of the ideal state: the Republic. It is Plato's intent in this dialogue to establish, philosophically, the ideal state, a state that would stand as a model for all emerging or existing societies currently functioning during Plato's time and extending into our own times. The Republic may be seen as a kind of debate, a fitting description for most of the Dialogues. It is a kind of extended conversation that embraces a central argument, an argument that is advanced by the proponent of the argument, Socrates. Although it contains its dramatic moments and it employs certain literary devices, it is not a play, a novel, a story it is not, in a strict sense, an essay. The Republic is arguably the most popular and most widely taught of Plato's writings. ![]()
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