Republic (Oxford World's Classics)

The central work of one of the West's greatest philosophers, The Republic of Plato is a masterpiece of insight and feeling, the finest of the Socratic dialogues, and one of the great books of Western culture. This new translation captures the dramatic realism, poetic beauty, intellectual vitality, and emotional power of Plato at the height of his powers. Deftly weaving three main strands of argument into an artistic whole--the ethical and political, the aesthetic and mystical, and the metaphysical--Plato explores in The Republic the elements of the ideal community, where morality can be achieved in a balance of wisdom, courage, and restraint.

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• Four Texts on Socrates: Plato's "Euthyphro", "Apology of Socrates", and "Crito" and Aristophanes' "Clouds"
• The Prince: Second Edition
• Aristotle's "Politics": Second Edition
• Leviathan: With selected variants from the Latin edition of 1668 (Hackett Classics)
• Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics
• City of God (Penguin Classics)
• The Nietzsche Reader
• Aristotle: The Politics and the Constitution of Athens (Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought)
• The Major Political Writings of Jean-Jacques Rousseau: The Two "Discourses" and the "Social Contract"
• Nicomachean Ethics