Authoritative new edition of Plato's Republic by acclaimed translator Christopher Rowe
Plato (c.427-347 BC) stands with Socrates and Aristotle as one of the shapers of the whole intellectual tradition of the West. He founded in Athens the Academy, the first permanent institution devoted to philosophical research and teaching, and the prototype of all Western universities. Christopher Rowe was until 2009 Professor of Greek in Durham University. His co-edited publications include The Cambridge History of Greek and Roman Political Thought (2000), New Perspectives on Plato, Modern and Ancient (2002), Plato's Lysis (2005), and Plato and the Art of Philosophical Writing (2007). In Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics (2002), Sarah Broadie's philosophical commentary is accompanied by Christopher Rowe's translation. His translation of Phaedrus appeared in Penguin Classics in 2005, and his new version of The Last Days of Socrates - comprising Euthyphro, Apology, Crito and Phaedo - was published in 2010. He was awarded an OBE in 2009 for services to scholarship.
"Must we not acknowledge...that in each of us there are the same
principles and habits which there are in the State; and that from
the individual they pass into the State?"
What does it mean to be good? What enables us to distinguish right
from wrong? And how should human virtues be translated into a just
society? These are the questions that Plato sought to answer in
this monumental work of moral and political philosophy, a book
surpassed only by the Bible in its formative influence on two
thousand years of Western thought.
In the course of its tautly reasoned Socratic dialogues, The
Republic accomplishes nothing less than an anatomy of the soul and
an exhaustive description of a State that both mirrors and enforces
the soul's ideal harmony. The resulting text is at once mystical
and elegantly logical and may be read as a template for the
societies in which most of us live today.
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