| The Republic: The Complete and Unabridged Jowett Translation Contributor(s): Plato (Author) |
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ISBN: 0679733876 ISBN-13: 9780679733874 Publisher: Vintage OUR PRICE: $11.70 Product Type: Paperback Published: March 1991 Annotation: (Book Jacket Status: Jacketed) Toward the end of the astonishing period of Athenian creativity that furnished Western civilization with the greater part of its intellectual, artistic, and political wealth, Plato wrote "The Republic," his discussion of the nature and meaning of justice and of the ideal state and its ruler. All subsequent European thinking about these subjects owes its character, directly or indirectly, to this most famous (and most accessible) of the Platonic dialogues. Although he describes a society that looks to some like the ideal human community and to others like a totalitarian nightmare, in the course of his description Plato raises enduringly relevant questions about politics, art, education, and the general conduct of life. Translated by A. D. Lindsay "From the Hardcover edition." |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Philosophy | History & Surveys - Ancient & Classical - Philosophy | Political - Philosophy | Ethics & Moral Philosophy |
| Dewey: 321.07 |
| LCCN: 90055688 |
| Lexile Measure: 1060 |
| Series: Vintage Classics |
| Physical Information: 0.9" H x 5.1" W x 8" (0.95 lbs) 416 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - Ancient (To 499 A.D.) |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: What does it mean to be good? What enables us to distinguish right from wrong? And how should human virtues be translated into a just society? These are the questions that Plato sought to answer in this monumental work of moral and political philosophy, a book surpassed only by the Bible in its formative influence on two thousand years of Western thought. In the course of its tautly reasoned Socratic dialogues, The Republic accomplishes nothing less than an anatomy of the soul and an exhaustive description of a State that both mirrors and enforces the soul's ideal harmony. The resulting text is at once mystical and elegantly logical and may be read as a template for the societies in which most of us live today. |
