The Republic
Plato
The Republic
by Plato(henry_blake)
Plato's foundational dialogue on justice, the ideal state, and the philosopher-king, exploring the nature of reality and the good life.
Chapters
BOOK X — INTRODUCTION AND ANALYSIS.
6,452 words
BOOK I. The Republic opens with a truly Greek scene—a festival in
3,700 words
BOOK II. Thrasymachus is pacified, but the intrepid Glaucon insists on
6,205 words
BOOK III. There is another motive in purifying religion, which is to
6,897 words
BOOK IV. Adeimantus said: ‘Suppose a person to argue, Socrates, that
5,834 words
BOOK V. I was going to enumerate the four forms of vice or decline in
3,818 words
Book IV, which fall unperceived on the reader’s mind, as they are
687 words
BOOK VI. Having determined that the many have no knowledge of true
7,852 words
BOOK VII. And now I will describe in a figure the enlightenment or
7,223 words
BOOK VIII. And so we have arrived at the conclusion, that in the
8,350 words
BOOK IX. Last of all comes the tyrannical man, about whom we have to
4,545 words
BOOK X. Many things pleased me in the order of our State, but there was
36,247 words
BOOK I — I went down yesterday to the Piraeus with Glaucon the son of Ariston,
12,305 words
BOOK II — With these words I was thinking that I had made an end of the
11,522 words
BOOK III — Such then, I said, are our principles of theology—some tales are to be
13,884 words
BOOK IV — Here Adeimantus interposed a question: How would you answer, Socrates,
11,393 words
BOOK V — Such is the good and true City or State, and the good and true man is
13,890 words
BOOK VI — And thus, Glaucon, after the argument has gone a weary way, the true
11,815 words
BOOK VII — And now, I said, let me show in a figure how far our nature is
11,509 words
BOOK VIII — And so, Glaucon, we have arrived at the conclusion that in the perfect
11,278 words
BOOK IX — Last of all comes the tyrannical man; about whom we have once more to
8,917 words
BOOK X — Of the many excellences which I perceive in the order of our State,
11,617 words