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	Republic (government) - MSN Encarta
		Republic (government) (Latin res publica, literally “the public thing”), form of state based on the concept that sovereignty resides in the people, who delegate the power to rule in their behalf to elected representatives and officials.
		Plato constructed his republic on what he considered the basic elements or characteristics of the human soul: the appetitive, the spirited, and the philosophical.
		Accordingly, his ideal republic consisted of three distinct groups: a commercial class formed by those dominated by their appetites; a spirited class, administrators and soldiers, responsible for the execution of the laws; and the guardians or philosopher-kings, who would be the lawmakers.
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761554383/Republic_(government).html (1550 words)

	GradeSaver: ClassicNote: Biography of Plato
		Plato's father died when Plato was a young child; his mother, unable to support Plato, his two older brothers Adeimantus and Glaucon, and his young sister Potone on her own, remarried to Pyrilampes, an associate of the statesman Pericles.
		In 399 Plato witnessed the trial and execution of Socrates at the hands of the restored Athenian democracy, under charges of corrupting the youth, introducing new gods to the city, atheism, and unusual religious practices.
		In 387, at the age of forty, Plato returned to Athens and founded the Academy, often described as the first European university, which continued to teach its comprehensive curriculum of astronomy, biology, mathematics, political theory, and philosophy until it was ordered closed in 529 AD by Emperor Justinian, nearly one thousand years later.
	www.gradesaver.com /classicnotes/authors/about_plato.html (885 words)

	Green Left - Platonic loves revisited
		Plato was an aristocrat, profoundly out of joint with the Athens of antiquity that was a (limited) democracy, centuries ahead of its time.
		Plato, says Blackburn, is everywhere “sneering at labouring people”, hankering after the military despotism of Athens’ rival city-state, Sparta, and wanting to banish artists because they question the social order.
		The class prejudice of the independently wealthy Plato has flened the reputation of the sophists for charging fees for “dispensing their wisdom” (as Blackburn derisively puts it with the unconscious hypocrisy of generations of classics scholars who are quite happy to be paid for their services).
	www.greenleft.org.au /2006/683/8002 (691 words)

	Republic (Plato) Essays
		When he wrote "The Republic", Plato recognized the need for the rulers or `guardians' of his kallipolis to be good and righteous.
		Argues that Plato's Republic was a necessary catalyst for the advancement of human knowledge through the idea of using inductive reasoning.
		Plato believed that education is wisdom; through literary mechanisms such as the Allegory of the Cave, he discusses the importance of education in achieving enlightenment.
	www.bookrags.com /essay/Republic_(Plato) (428 words)

	Republic (Plato) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Hence, in the centre piece of the Republic, Part II, 2-3, Plato deals with the rule of the philosopher and the vision of the Agathon in the famous allegory of the cave, with which Plato clarifies his theory of forms.
		Plato then goes on to explain how the philosopher is a former prisoner who is freed from the cave and comes to understand that the shadows on the wall are not constituitive of reality at all.
		Plato scholars see it as their task to provide the background knowledge that is needed to gain a fair understanding of what was meant by the author of The Republic.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Platos_Republic (5049 words)

	The Literary Magazine
		Plato’s Republic indicates that such a polity is doomed, for the culture is in decline, and on the road to tyranny, the worst of all possible forms of government.
		Plato articulates an axiological ontology of nature and human nature, in which the transcendence of the good is not simply the name for an indefinitely repeatable sign function.
		Plato calls us to imitate he who understands the depth of his own immorality and ignorance: the humility of Socrates is more than a posture; modesty is his very being.
	www.litencyc.com /theliterarymagazine/plato.php (3828 words)

	Simon Blackburn on Plato's Republic \| Review \| Guardian Unlimited Books
		It is commonly regarded as the culminating achievement of Plato as a philosopher and writer, brilliantly poised between the questioning and inconclusive earlier dialogues and the less compelling cosmological speculations and doubts of the later ones.
		And Republic is the shrine at the very centre of the sanctuary, since for centuries it has been the one compulsory subject in the philosophy syllabus, so these same scholars will have been educated with it as the centrepiece and inspiration.
		Plato wrote his philosophy in dialogues, a form that requires different voices, and the ebb and flow of argument.
	books.guardian.co.uk /review/story/0,,1837239,00.html (1839 words)

	Yuva's Blog : Platoâs The Republic, Yuvaraj Anandan blogs on sulekha, Books blogs, Yuvaraj Anandan blog from india
		Platoâs Republic is widely acknowledged as the cornerstone of Western philosophy.
		The Republic also addresses the purpose of education and the role of both women and men as âguardiansâ of the people.
		With remarkable lucidity and deft use of allegory, Plato arrives at a depiction of a state bound by harmony and ruled by âphilosopher kingsâ.
	iamyuva.sulekha.com /blog/post/2006/03/plato-s-the-republic.htm (451 words)

	Plato's Republic
		Plato too was troubled by Sophistic doctrines and by the way the average Athenian let himself be guided by values, whether Sophistic or traditional, which he did not subject to critical analysis.
		Plato believed that morality must be based on objective truth and must be reconciled with self-interest: that is, morality must be shown to be in the interest of the individual.
		Although Plato knows that these myths are not literally true, he refers to them as "noble fictions", for in his mind they are justified by their serving a morally valid purpose in his ideal state (414).
	ablemedia.com /ctcweb/netshots/republic.htm (3388 words)

	Plato's Ethics and Politics in The Republic (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)
		Plato would probably prefer to think in terms of self-sufficiency, and for the purposes of Socrates' argument here, it is enough to contrast the way a producer's capacity is deeply dependent upon social surroundings and the way a philosopher's capacity is relatively free from this dependence.
		Plato is constructing a model of perfect city (and a model of a perfect soul) to give us targets by which to judge our own condition.
		Plato's position on this question is a stubbornly persistent ideal, despite the equally stubborn persistence of criticism.
	plato.stanford.edu /entries/plato-ethics-politics (15688 words)

	Poesis in Plato's Republic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-26)
		Plato, as it were, puts the issue on the table and provides the vocabulary which shapes the debates.
		Plato discusses poesis in some detail at least twice in The Republic--once in Book III, where the main concern seems to be the influence of drama on the guardian classes.
		In fact, after reading the Republic I am tempted to make a totally illegitimate but interesting biographical speculation that Plato is one of those writers for whom a careful scrutiny and control of art and the language of art are vitally important precisely because he personally understands and responds to the power of poesis.
	www.mala.bc.ca /~johnstoi/introser/republic.htm (3809 words)

	Plato's Republic - Gyges' ring
		The only other place where he uses this word is toward the end of the Republic (Republic, X, 612b4 et b5), just before telling the story of Er, to refer the reader, in the conclusion of the discussion on true justice that got started by Glaucon's speech, to "the ring of Gyges".
		Plato is not writing the history of one unjust war that was at the root of Athens' glory, he is writing the "history" of justice itself...
		(9) The same word, chasma, used by Plato to describe the opening in the earth in which Gyges plunges, is also used by Socrates in the myth at the end of the Phædo to describe the openings in the earth where men live their mortal lives (Phædo, 111c8, 111e6, 112a5).
	plato-dialogues.org /tetra_4/republic/gyges.htm (4394 words)

	Plato's Republic
		Plato usually wrote relatively short pieces, like the Euthyphro, Meno, etc. In all his writings there are only two book length works, the Republic and the Laws.
		It is easy to see how Plato could have stumbled into this mistake by the nature of his analogy between soul and state: the soul has three simple parts, but the state has three parts that consists of things that each have three parts.
		Plato's only hope would be his government of philosophers where precautions are taken to prevent the principle of hereditary succession from beginning.
	www.friesian.com /plato.htm (6934 words)

	20th WCP: Play and Education in Plato's Republic
		Plato's Republic aims to show that philosophical "play" is the best pedagogical means to educate a just citizenry and to prepare philosophical leaders to govern.
		The prominence of play (paidia) in the Republic is reflected in the interplay of the interlocutors, and is particularly prevalent in the thought and life of Socrates and his extended discussion with Thrasymachos, an arch-sophist, and with Plato's two brothers, Adeimantos and Glaucon.
		Plato himself employs play with serious intent in the education of potential philosophers when he uses an imaginative myth to describe the education of learners as they move from an unenlightened condition to enlightenment in the Myth of the Cave (7.514a-518b).
	www.bu.edu /wcp/Papers/Educ/EducKren.htm (4164 words)

	Plato - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Plato was born in Athens in May or December in 428 or 427 BC (like all the other early western philosophers, his birthdate is not exactly known).
		Plato's thought is often compared with that of his most famous student, Aristotle, whose reputation during the Western Middle Ages so completely eclipsed that of Plato that the Scholastic philosophers referred to Aristotle as "the Philosopher".
		The Symposium and the Republic are considered the centrepieces of Plato's middle period.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Plato (4207 words)

	Notes on Plato’s Republic
		In Plato’s Republic Book 4, Socrates, Adeimantus, and Glaucon, while continuing to build their utopian city, start to realize the level of sacrifice that will be required.
		In Book Three of Plato’s Republic, Socrates and his friends dive into what are the influences and the needs of the city.
		In Plato’s Republic Book 2, Glaucon and Adiemantus starts to ask the question of whether justice is something we do because we are compelled by law or because it is the highest end.
	platosrepublic.wordpress.com (1341 words)

	PLATOS REPUBLIC Term Papers - PLATOS REPUBLIC Research Papers from JunglePage
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	CliffsNotes Platos the Republic - Thomas Thornburg - Mary Thornburg - Cliffs Notes - Palm Reader eBook - Download Now!
		CliffsNotes Platos the Republic - Thomas Thornburg - Mary Thornburg - Cliffs Notes - Palm Reader eBook - Download Now!
		Considered to be one of the three greatest philosophical tomes of all time, The Republic is Plato's account and interpretation of Socrates's ideas about life, meaning, and the just society.
		This text has provoked and shaped thought for thousands of years and is as applicable now as it ever was.
	www.ebookmall.com /ebook/105575-ebook.htm (563 words)

	Mid Term Papers: Term Papers on Platos Republic: THe Virtues
		Below is a free term papers summary of the paper "Platos Republic: THe Virtues." If you sign up, you can be reading the rest of this term papers in under two minutes.
		The four virtues used by Plato are prudence, courage, temperance, and
		Plato relates the virtues to a community, which is made up of the
	www.midtermpapers.com /9586.htm (492 words)

	Plato's Republic
		And these questions, no matter how vital they may be on their own, are only intellectual stepping stones along the pathway of Plato's greater inquiry—the question of defining justice itself and the reasons why a man or woman would choose a life aligned with that virtue.
		In Plato's Republic, Professor David Roochnik leads you through the brilliant dialogue Plato crafted both to define and examine the issues with which political philosophy still grapples.
		Plato, for instance, has Socrates present what has come to be known, notoriously, as the "noble lie," the assertion that human beings are not born of their parents but of the city itself.
	www.teach12.com /ttc/assets/coursedescriptions/4537.asp (781 words)

	Plato's dialogues - Republic
		Plato and his dialogues : Home - Biography - Works and links to them - History of interpretation - New hypotheses - Map of dialogues : table version or non tabular version.
		Also available at this time is a commentary of the story of Gyges as it relates to the allegory of the cave and the myth of Er.
		Cephalus and the Timæus, on the relationsip between the Republic and the Timæus.
	plato-dialogues.org /tetra_4/republic.htm (486 words)

	Plato's Republic Summary & Essays - Plato
		As a citizen of Athens, Plato’s life was a product of a society dominated by war outside of the state and the direct practice of democracy within it.
		As Plato progressed, he continued to use Socrates as the main character in his dialogues, although the thoughts he expressed became Plato’s own.
		Plato died in Athens in 347 B.C., leaving behind the unfinished manuscript to The Laws.
	www.enotes.com /plato (302 words)

	platos republic 524: superiorresearchpapers.com- superior research papers, superior essays, superior term papers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-26)
		The Weimar Republic, which was established in early 1918 after workers and troops in the German Empire revolted against the government's refusal to end WW1, was troubled from the very beginning.
		Peukert notes that the Weimar Republic was inherently weak and that combined with economic strife led to the eventual demise of the republic.
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	Khrushchev’s secret speech and end of communism (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-26)
		Socialism is a broad word that implies any economic or political system (or ideology) in which the state is the primary determinant of the economic, political, and social decisions for a people--as opposed to a democracy or a true republic, where the people are the ultimate determinants of policy.
		Platos dialectic is the exact opposite of Marx's material dialectic.
		Platos Republic is really forecasts so many of the problems we are having today - right down to the mexican invasion.
	www.freerepublic.com /focus/f-news/1590653/posts (4218 words)

	Allegory of the Cave
		Plato realizes that the general run of humankind can think, and speak, etc., without (so far as they acknowledge) any awareness of his realm of Forms.
		In the allegory, Plato likens people untutored in the Theory of Forms to prisoners chained in a cave, unable to turn their heads.
		Plato’s point: the general terms of our language are not “names” of the physical objects that we can see.
	faculty.washington.edu /smcohen/320/cave.htm (643 words)

	Study Guide for Platos's Republic, Book IV, 427d-445e (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-26)
		Perhaps the greatest of all of Plato's works, the Republic covers a broad range of topics, including metaphysics, epistemology, ethics, political theory and the philosophy of education.
		Its avowed purpose, however, is to investigate the nature of justice, which Plato considers both as it applies to the state and as it applies to the individual.
		By the beginning of our passage, Plato's characters have reached the conclusion that a state or community can be regarded as consisting of three classes: guardians (the rulers), auxiliaries (soldiers) and artisans.
	www.public.coe.edu /~pmccormi/phl025/s01/reading_guides/republic.html (325 words)

	Amazon.com: Plato's "Republic": Books: Richard Kraut (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-26)
		An Introduction to Plato's Republic by Julia Annas
		Bringing between two covers the most influential and accessible articles on Plato's Republic, this collection illuminates what is widely held to be the most important work of Western philosophy and political theory.
		Richard Kraut is the editor of "The Cambridge Companion to Plato" and the author of "Aristotle on the Human Good" and "Socrates and the State".
	www.amazon.com /Platos-Republic-Richard-Kraut/dp/0847684938 (708 words)

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