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Republic

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Book Summary

Plato Biography

Plato's World
Plato's Early Life
Plato's Growth as a Philosopher
Plato's Academy
Plato's Later Years

About Plato's Republic

Overview
The Socratic Method
The Setting for and the Speakers in the Dialogue

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Book I: Section I
Book I: Section II
Book I: Section III
Book I: Section IV
Book II: Section I
Book II: Section II
Book II: Section III
Book III: Section I
Book III: Section II
Book III: Section III
Book IV: Section I
Book IV: Section II
Book IV: Section III
Book V: Section I
Book V: Section II
Book VI: Section I
Book VI: Section II
Book VI: Section III
Book VII: Section I
Book VII: Section II
Book VII: Section III
Book X: Section I
Book X: Section II
Book X: Section III

Character List

Character Analysis

Socrates
Thrasymachus
Adeimantus
Glaucon

Critical Essays

Plato's Flyting
When Plato Was a Child
Leonidas: Portrait of a Spartan

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Book VII: Section III

Solon (640?-559? b.c.) Athenian statesman and lawgiver: framed the democratic laws of Athens.

eristic of or provoking controversy or given to sophistical argument and specious reasoning; a person who engages in such argument (a Sophist).

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