Essays on Plato Republic

The majority of Plato’s Republic comprises a search for, examination, and defense of justice. Glaucon wants Socrates to defend the principle that justice is good for its own sake. To better understand what justice is, they create a “city in speech” which will serve as...

Plato had personal as well as rational reasons to be against Democracy. For example one of the personal reasons being that it was under a democracy that his mentor Socrates was executed unjustly, and the rational reasons, he expressed in his book “The Republic”. In...

The Republic is one of the most popular works concerning philosophy and politics in history, written by Plato, a Greek thinker within the fourth century A.D. In this book, Plato explores topics such as justice and political systems in great details. While Plato has written...

Since the start of history and human civilizations, people have defined the guidelines of acceptable behaviors in society. The standards in regards to the proper thoughts and justifiable ways of living differ from society to society, yet they are alike in the sense that these...

Republic is the mostly widely read, argued, challenged and disagreed book, written by Athenian philosopher Plato in 380 BC. Republic is his most famous work. Its highly palatable unlike other philosophy books and is in the form of dialogues between centre character Socrates and his...

In this essay, I will argue the question through the character of Socrates in Plato’s Book V from the Republic, how he chooses to stand on the base of having an efficient and prospers republic and the arguments he uses to reach that conclusion. To...

In this essay I will explore and talk about Glaucon’s third objection in the first paragraph, Plato’s response in the second, and Plato’s answer in the last paragraph. In Plato’s Republic, he uses Socrates, Glaucon and other philosophers’ conversations and arguments surrounding the ideas of...