The Republic - Plato

The best known of Plato's dialogues The Republic applies the principles of philosophy to political affairs. Ostensibly a discussion of the nature of justice it lays before us Plato's vision of the ideal state covering a wide range of topics, social, educational, psychological, moral and philosophical. It also includes in the process some of Plato's most important writing on the nature of reality and the theory of the forms. 

Plato (c. 428/427 - c. 348/347 BCE) was a Greek philosopher and founder of the Academy in Athens. His writings form the basis of much of Western philosophy.

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