The most important and enduring of Plato's works.
'The Republic' offers inspired discussions on the nature of justice, knowledge, morality and political authority - for Plato these were inseparable issues. His portrait of the ideal community, in which power is entrusted to philosophers, and men and women accept the rule of the wise and good, not only addressed democratic Athens and her moral decline, but laid the philosophical foundations of Western culture.
The most comprehensive paperback edition available, with introduction, index and text summary.
