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The Republic

By Plato

First written c. 375 BCE

About this book

Plato’s dialogue on justice in the soul and the city. Books VI and VII contain the images of the sun, the divided line and the cave, and the Form of the Good, “beyond being”, which shaped the whole later tradition of ascent.

The edition

Title
The Republic
Translated by
Benjamin Jowett
Publisher
Clarendon Press, Oxford
Year
1871
Edition
In The Dialogues of Plato

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Period

Axial Age800 BCE to 200 BCE

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