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The Republic is the centre around which the other Dialogues may be grouped; here Philosophy reaches the highest point to which ancient thinkers ever attained. Plato among the Greeks, like Bacon among the moderns, was the first who conceived a method of knowledge, although neither of them always distinguished the bare outline or form from the substance of truth; and both of them had to be content with an abstraction of science which was not yet realized.
- P11

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Nowhere in Plato is there a deeper irony or a greater wealth of humor or imagery, or more dramatic power. Nor in any other of his writings is the attempt made to interweave life and speculation, or to connect politics with Philosophy.
- P10

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But no other Dialogue of Plato has the same largeness of view and the same perfection of style; no other shows an equal knowledge of the world, or contains more of those thoughts which are new as well as old, and not of one age only but of all. - P10

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THE REPUBLIC

by Plato
(360 B. C.)

THE INTRODUCTION

The Republic of Plato is the longest of his works with the exception of the Laws, and is certainly the greatest of them. There are nearer approaches to modern metaphysics in the Philebus and in the Sophist; the Politicus or Statesman is more ideal; the form and institutions of the State are more clearly drawn out in the Laws; as works of art, the Symposium and the Protagoras are of higher excellence.
- P10

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■ 저자 소개
플라톤(Platon)은 그리스의 철학자이며 사상가였습니다. 소크라테스의 제자였으며 아리스토텔레스의 스승이었고 현대 대학의 원형이라고 할 수 있는 세계 최초의 고등 교육 기관 아카데메이아(academia)의 설립자입니다. 정치학, 윤리학, 형이상학, 인식론 등 많은 철학적 논점들에 대해 저술하였니다. 영국의 철학자 화이트헤드는 "서양의 2000년 철학은 모두 플라톤의 각주에 불과하다"고 평했습니다.
- P3