The Republic
By Plato
Translated by Benjamin Jowett
Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1871, In The Dialogues of Plato
First written c. 375 BCE
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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.
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Plato. The Republic. Translated by Benjamin Jowett. In The Dialogues of Plato. Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1871.
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Traditions
Concepts
- TruthWhat is so; the agreement of thought with reality, and in some traditions reality itself.
- KnowledgeJustified understanding; in contemplative traditions, also knowledge by identity.
- BeingThe fact or act of existing; the subject of ontology.
- SoulThe life and inner self of a person, in Greek philosophy and Christian thought.