Plato’s Justice
PLATO AND JUSTICE In his famed dialogue The Republic, Plato wants to answer the fundamental question: What is justice? And also, what is the relationship between justice and happiness? Later [...]
Plato’s Duality
PLATO'S DUALITY Plato's Republic contains many examples of "Duality". The most striking, philosophically speaking, is Plato's assertion about the existence of two worlds. The originality in the concept of the duality and [...]
Plato’s Imitation Theory
PLATO'S IMITATION THEORY Plato's imitation theory is an important part of his debate in the Republic. As I have written in my previous post, Plato asserted that making art is the [...]
The Republic Lead Subjects
THE REPUBLIC IN TWENTY WORDS The Republic of Plato is comprised of ten books. And it is a long manuscript of approximately 330 pages and 120,000 words (depending on the [...]