TY  - BOOK
AU  - Plato
AU  - Lindsay, A D (tr.)
TI  - REPUBLIC
SN  - 9780192126047
U1  - 321.07  
PB  - Heron Books
KW  - Political science 
KW  - Systems of governments and states 
KW  - Political Systems 
KW  - Ideal state; Utopias
N1  - Plato's Republic is widely acknowledged as one of the most influential works in the history of 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; what is the purpose of education? 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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