Plato's Republic: A Biography by Simon Blackburn

Plato's Republic: A Biography

Books That Shook the World

Simon Blackburn

192 pages first pub 2006 (editions)

nonfiction classics history philosophy challenging informative slow-paced
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Plato is perhaps the most significant philosopher who ever lived and The Republic, composed in Athens in about 375 BC, is widely regarded as his most famous dialogue. Its discussion of the perfect city--and the perfect mind--laid the foundations f...

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