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Project Gutenberg #1497

The Republic

Plato

375 BCE

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

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Section 3 of 13

PERSONS OF THE DIALOGUE.

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Chapter 3 — PERSONS OF THE DIALOGUE. Central question Who participates in the philosophical inquiry? Main argument The cast of speakers matters because the dialogue is staged as a conversation among differing...

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Socrates, who is the narrator. Glaucon. Adeimantus. Polemarchus. Cephalus. Thrasymachus. Cleitophon. And others who are mute auditors. The scene is laid in the house of Cephalus at the Piraeus; and the whole dialogue is narrated by Socrates the day after it actually took place to Timaeus, Hermocrates, Critias, and a nameless person, who are introduced in the Timaeus.

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