The Republic Themes

You could think of Plato's Republic as his philosophical manifesto. This is where Plato explains most of his most famous and history-altering concepts about justice, truth, government, morality, an...

If you're looking for a book that gets real on the topic of justice, look no further than Plato's Republic. You could almost say that this is the book to read on justice—period—since it spends...

Plato's Republic is often considered the first work of political philosophy ever written. Plato was also the first guy to imagine a fictional city as a way to think about ideal forms of government...

We don't know about you, but we weren't too surprised to find out that Plato's Republic is totally into the pursuit of wisdom and knowledge.In the famous Allegory of the Cave (see our "Symbols" sec...

We have to be honest: in the discipline of literature Plato's Republic has a bit of bad rap.That's probably because when Socrates constructs this ideal city, he pretty much bans all poetry and all...

Plato, not unlike Jack Nicholson, isn't sure that you can handle the truth.Well, maybe you can handle the truth, but (according to Plato) most people can't.Even though Socrates spends a lot of time...

Socrates and his pals were pretty obsessed with the benefits of education in the Republic. Since Socrates believed that education was closely linked to morality, he thought that if he could only cr...

There's lots of talk about ethics and morality in Plato's Republic, but let's be real: we totally want to know if being ethical and moral actually makes you happy.Enter Socrates.Instead of simply t...