The Republic

This edition includes 10 illustrations. Is the just man happier than the unjust? This is the question – one of many – that Plato poses in The Republic, a work of political theory which has, since it was written in the first century BCE, become one of the most influential books of all time. A student of Socrates and, in turn, a mentor to Aristotle, the Greek philosopher Plato and his contemporaries engaged in debates about the universality of morals and the structure of society and governments, and in The Republic, translated here by B. Jowett, Plato recreates these dialogues for the enlightenment of all.