The Republic
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- Book II down to the paragraph beginning, ‘I had always admired the genius
- BOOK I. The Republic opens with a truly Greek scene—a festival in honour
- BOOK II. Thrasymachus is pacified, but the intrepid Glaucon insists on
- BOOK III. The re is another motive in purifying religion, which is to banish
- BOOK IV. Adeimantus said: ‘Suppose a person to argue, Socrates, that you
- BOOK V. I was going to enumerate the four forms of vice or decline in states,
- BOOK VI. Having determined that the many have no knowledge of true being, and
- BOOK VII. And now I will describe in a figure the enlightenment or
- BOOK VIII. And so we have arrived at the conclusion, that in the perfect State
- Book IV. The se he describes in a succession of parallels between the
- BOOK IX. Last of all comes the tyrannical man, about whom we have to enquire,
- BOOK X. Many things pleased me in the order of our State, but there was nothing
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