| Author/Contributor(s): | Plato |
| Publisher: | Vintage |
| Date: | 03/06/1991 |
| Binding: | Paperback |
| Condition: | NEW |
What does it mean to be good? What enables us to distinguish right from wrong? How should human virtues be translated into a just society? In the course of its tautly reasoned Socratic dialogues, The Republic accomplishes nothing less than an anatomy of the soul and an exhaustive description of a State that both mirrors and enforces the soul's ideal harmony. The resulting text is at once mystical and elegantly logical and may be read as a template for the societies in which most of us live today.