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Cover for The Republic

Project Gutenberg #1497

The Republic

Plato

375 BCE

Plato's foundational dialogue on justice and the state, split into sections from Project Gutenberg HTML.

Project Gutenberg #1497 Public domain in the United States Cover source Local typographic cover created for MojiMori from public-domain source metadata

Section 2 of 13

THE REPUBLIC.

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Chapter 2 — THE REPUBLIC. Central question What is the central object of the dialogue? Main argument This opening section announces the city as the setting for the inquiry. Plato uses the larger scale of political...

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