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The Republic (Hardcover)
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The Republic (Hardcover)
Series: The Macat Library
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The Republic is Plato's most complete and incisive work - a
detailed study of the problem of how best to ensure that justice
exists in a real society, rather than as merely the product of an
idealized philosophical construct. The work considers several
competing definitions of justice, and looks closely not only at
what exactly a "just life" should be, but also at the ways in which
society can organise itself in ways that maximise the opportunities
for every member to live justly. Much of the discussion is via
imagined dialogues, giving Plato the opportunity to deploy the
tools of Socratic debate to remarkable effect; nowhere else, it can
be argued, is the Socratic dialectic better exemplified than in The
Republic. In large measure, Plato's success is the product of the
acute analytical ability that he demonstrates throughout his
surviving oeuvre. No one is better at understanding the
relationships between the various parts of a successful argument
than Plato, and The Republic also demonstrates the Greek
philosopher has few peers when it comes to looking for and
highlighting the core assumptions that underlie an argument. The
demolition of competing views that Plato puts into the mouth of
Socrates is based on a series of relentless interventions and
counter-examples that this mastery makes possible. Combining
analytical skills with great powers of reasoning to produce a
well-structured solution that deals emphatically with
counter-arguments, Plato crafts one of the most enduring works of
philosophy in the entire western canon.
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