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Harper.Collins Classics — REPUBLIC

Mon, 03 Jun 2024 17:14:09 +0000

HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics.Plato’s Republic has influenced Western philosophers for centuries, with its main focus on what makes a well-balanced society and individual.

The Republic

Sat, 01 Jun 2024 21:27:09 +0000

‘Wealth and poverty; the one is the parent of luxury and indolence, and the other of meanness and viciousness, and both of discontent.’Plato’s The Republic forms the foundation of most Western philosophy. An inquiry into politics, a discourse on morality and a brilliantly insightful exposition of philosophy are framed into a simple dialogue between Socrates and his pupils.Translated by the renowned Oxford classicist, Benjamin Jowett, The Republic is highly accessible yet filled with fascinating depths for students of philosophy. It shows us the vision of an ideal society and what we can do as individuals to help create it.

Symposium and The Death of Socrates

Sat, 18 May 2024 13:12:03 +0000

In Symposium, a group of Athenian aristocrats attend a party and talk about love, until the drunken Alcibiades bursts in and decides to discuss Socrates instead. Symposium gives an unsurpassed picture of the sparkling society that was Athens at the height of her empire.The setting of the other dialogues is more sombre. Socrates is put on trial for impiety, and sentenced to death. Euthyphro discusses the nature of piety, Apology is Socrates’ speech in his own defence, Crito explains his refusal to escape punishment, and Phaedo gives an account of Socrates’ last day.These dialogues have never been offered in one volume before. Tom Griffith’s Symposium has been described as ‘possibly the finest translation of any Platonic dialogue’. All the other translations are new.

Republic Plato

Sat, 18 May 2024 13:06:03 +0000

The ideas of Plato (c429-347BC) have influenced Western philosophers for over two thousand years. Such is his importance that the twentieth-century philosopher A.N. Whitehead described all subsequent developments within the subject as foot-notes to Plato’s work. Beyond philosophy, he has exerted a major influence on the development of Western literature, politics and theology.The Republic deals with the great range of Plato’s thought, but is particularly concerned with what makes a well-balanced society and individual. It combines argument and myth to advocate a life organized by reason rather than dominated by desires and appetites. Regarded by some as the foundation document of totalitarianism, by others as a call to develop the full potential of humanity, the Republic remains a challenging and intensely exciting work.