Plato · c. 428/427-348/347 BC

Republic

Contents · 70 passages

1. 327a–330eBook I: Down to the Piraeus; Cephalus on old age and wealth1743 words
2. 331a–335eBook I: Polemarchus and Simonides: justice as giving each his due2522 words
3. 336a–340eBook I: Thrasymachus: justice is the interest of the stronger2432 words
4. 341a–344eBook I: The ruler in the precise sense; shepherds, and the argument that injustice pays2042 words
5. 345a–347eBook I: The shepherd's art and the wages of rulers1481 words
6. 348a–350eBook I: Is injustice a virtue? The just man does not try to outdo the like1530 words
7. 351a–354cBook I: Injustice destroys cooperation; the function of the soul; justice is happiness1710 words
8. 357a–361eBook II: Glaucon's challenge: the three kinds of good, the origin of justice and the ring of Gyges2251 words
9. 362a–364eBook II: Adeimantus: justice is praised only for its rewards1224 words
10. 365a–367eBook II: The poets and the gods; Adeimantus asks for justice itself1468 words
11. 368a–371eBook II: Justice in the city and the soul; the first city and the division of labour1786 words
12. 372a–376eBook II: The healthy city and the luxurious city; the nature of the guardians2372 words
13. 377a–379eBook II: The education of the guardians begins: censoring the stories of the poets1366 words
14. 380a–383cBook II: God does not change and does not deceive1685 words
15. 386a–390eBook III: Stories of Hades, lamentation, laughter and self-control1996 words
16. 391a–393eBook III: Tales of heroes; the two forms of speech, narrative and imitation1309 words
17. 394a–397eBook III: Imitation and the guardians; one man, one task1830 words
18. 398a–402eBook III: Banishing the all-imitating poet; harmonies, rhythms and the education of taste2254 words
19. 403a–407eBook III: The love of beauty; gymnastics, diet, and the growth of medicine and law courts2077 words
20. 408a–411eBook III: Asclepius and the sons of Asclepius; judges and doctors; music and gymnastics for the soul1792 words
21. 412a–413eBook III: The two arts for the soul and the selection of the rulers1037 words
22. 414a–417bBook III: The noble falsehood, the myth of the metals, and the life of the guardians1576 words
23. 419a–424eBook IV: Adeimantus' objection; the happiness of the whole city, wealth and poverty, size and unity2398 words
24. 425a–428eBook IV: Innovation in education and the limits of legislation; the four virtues sought1849 words
25. 429a–433eBook IV: Wisdom, courage and temperance in the city; justice is found2426 words
26. 434a–437eBook IV: Justice as doing one's own; the soul has parts like the city1957 words
27. 438a–440eBook IV: The appetitive and rational parts; Leontius and the spirited part1507 words
28. 441a–445eBook IV: The three parts of the soul and the four virtues; justice as health2420 words
29. 449a–452eBook V: The first wave: women among the guardians1632 words
30. 453a–456eBook V: Is the nature of woman the same as that of man?1782 words
31. 457a–460eBook V: The second wave: community of wives and children, and the breeding of the guardians1777 words
32. 461a–465eBook V: The age for begetting; the greatest good of the city is its unity2190 words
33. 466a–470eBook V: The guardians in war; the treatment of the fallen and of the Greeks2355 words
34. 471a–473eBook V: War among Greeks and with barbarians; the third wave: philosophers as kings1406 words
35. 474a–476eBook V: Who is a philosopher? Lovers of sights and sounds and lovers of the truth1528 words
36. 477a–480aBook V: Knowledge, opinion and ignorance; philosophers are lovers of wisdom, not of opinion1647 words
37. 484a–486eBook VI: The philosophic nature and why philosophers should rule1313 words
38. 487a–491eBook VI: Adeimantus' objection; the ship of state; the corruption of the philosophic nature2222 words
39. 492a–496eBook VI: The public as the great sophist; the desertion of philosophy by the unworthy2190 words
40. 497a–501eBook VI: The right city for philosophers; the pattern of the heavens and the painters of constitutions2191 words
41. 502a–505eBook VI: Persuading the many; the selection of rulers; the greatest study is the Good1846 words
42. 506b–508eBook VI: The sun as the offspring of the Good1383 words
43. 509a–511eBook VI: The good beyond being; the divided line1363 words
44. 514a–517eBook VII: The allegory of the cave1594 words
45. 518a–520eBook VII: Education as turning the soul; the philosopher must go back down1389 words
46. 521a–523eBook VII: Rulers who do not love office; the studies that turn the soul toward being1351 words
47. 524a–526eBook VII: Number and calculation as a path to the truth1401 words
48. 527a–531eBook VII: Geometry, solids, astronomy and harmonics2321 words
49. 532a–536eBook VII: Dialectic, the coping-stone of the sciences; the choice of students2183 words
50. 537a–541bBook VII: The course of education, the dangers of early dialectic and the founding of the city1972 words
51. 543a–547eBook VIII: The four degenerate constitutions; the Muses' number and the beginning of decline1943 words
52. 548b–550eBook VIII: The Spartan constitution (timocracy) and the timocratic man1208 words
53. 551a–554eBook VIII: Oligarchy and the oligarchic man1719 words
54. 555a–558eBook VIII: The oligarch's weakness; the rise of democracy and the city of freedom1656 words
55. 559a–561eBook VIII: Necessary and unnecessary desires; the democratic man1345 words
56. 562a–564eBook VIII: Excess of freedom in democracy; fathers, sons and teachers reversed1383 words
57. 565a–569cBook VIII: From the people's champion to the tyrant; the tyrant's guards and the people's mistake1980 words
58. 571a–575eBook IX: Lawless desires in sleep; the making of the tyrannical man2125 words
59. 576a–579eBook IX: The tyrant in private and in power; the tyrant's city and soul compared1946 words
60. 580a–582eBook IX: The ranking of the five men; the three parts and the three kinds of pleasure1430 words
61. 583a–587eBook IX: True and false pleasures; the king's life is 729 times pleasanter2377 words
62. 588a–592bBook IX: The image of the many-headed beast, the lion and the man; the city in heaven1963 words
63. 595a–597eBook X: Poetry and imitation; the three couches1304 words
64. 598a–601eBook X: The imitator knows nothing: Homer, the legislators and the sages1804 words
65. 602a–604eBook X: Imitation works on the worse part of the soul1451 words
66. 605a–607eBook X: The harm of tragic poetry and the old quarrel between philosophy and poetry1330 words
67. 608a–611eBook X: The immortality of the soul1965 words
68. 612b–613eBook X: The rewards of justice among gods and men911 words
69. 614a–616eBook X: The myth of Er: the judgement and the punishments of souls1346 words
70. 617a–621dBook X: The myth of Er: the spindle of Necessity, the choice of lives and the Plain of Oblivion2146 words