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THE GREAT BOOK 4! |  |
 Book 4 Introduction |
Logos and Thymos |
Eros and Justice |
Plato Links |
| Welcome To Book 4. Plato's Republic is one of the most interesting books I have ever read in the Center 10 class this year. It expresses how someone so wise can make many life changes on others. It also examines the citizens look at how to make a perfect state, "Utopian Civilization". This book examines how the weaker citizens can effect the stronger citizens. Socrates dicusses what he thinks would be helpful to make a perfect state. This is what is called the four virtues. The four virtues are...which examines the outlook of in the state. He also looks at how religion will play a major role in making a perfect state. |
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| Who is Plato? Plato (pl´t) (KEY) , 427-347 B.C., Greek philosopher. Teachings of Plato have been among the most influential in the history of Western civilization. 1 Life After pursuing the liberal studies of his day, he became in 407 B.C. a pupil and friend of Socrates. From about 388 B.C. he lived for a time at the court of Dionysius the Elder, tyrant of Syracuse. On his return to Athens, Plato founded a school, the Academy, where he taught mathematics and philosophy until his death. His teaching was interrupted by two more visits to Syracuse (367 and 361 B.C.), which he made in the vain hope of seeing his political ideals realized in Sicily. 2 Works and Philosophy Plato was a superb writer, and his works are part of the great world of literature. His extant work is in the form of dialogues and epistles. Some of the dialogues and many of the epistles attributed to him are known to be spurious, while others are doubtful. In the various dialogues he touched upon almost every problem that has occupied subsequent philosophers. The dialogues are divided into three groups according to the probable order of composition. 3 Bibliography See translation of the dialogues by B. Jowett, ed. by D. J. Allan and H. E. Daley (4 vol., 4th ed., rev. 1953); A. E. Taylor, Plato: The Man and His Work (1927); R. Bambrough, ed., New Essays on Plato and Aristotle (1965); G. Vlastos, Platonic Studies (1973); G. F. Else, Plato and Aristotle on Poetry (1987); Jacob A. Kline, A Commentary on the Meno of Plato (1989); C. Hampton, Pleasure, Knowledge, and Being: An Analysis of Philebus by Plato (1990). |
Plato was a student of Socrates. He is responsible for the writing of the Republic. |
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