The Republic

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Product Details

Author : Plato
Binding : Paperback
EAN : 9780486411217
Edition : 1
Number of Pages : 320
Product Group : Book
Publication Date : 2000-04-18
Publisher : Dover Publications

ASIN : 0486411214

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Customer Reviews

The Republic - 5stars, Dover Thrift - 0stars (2004-09-01)

Translation is key when buying a book like this. The Republic is a must read for anyone and everyone, but not Dover Thrift.The translator Allan Bloom has served me well for the past 5 years.

amazing. a must read for everyone (2004-02-29)

Just read it. Plato's idea shaped so many other's after him. If you don't understand what Plato was trying to say then you're doing yourself a disservice. Just in readin this, the reader realyl begins to think. You'll get better at thinking by the time the book is done, for this book teaches the reader how to think. All the ideas are presented in dialog, but if you can just look at what is being said you'll begin to understand. If you only read one thing, make it be this.

The Excellent Society (2003-12-03)

in the Republic, Plato. envisioned his ideology of what a free and fair society should look like. the book emphasises on the perfection of a perfect society, which will be free of corruption, discremination, race division, and partiality.

the author was aware of the alarming rate of corruption gripping the world we are in. he sketched a plan for a state to be run and maintained. a state that will based on law and order. specifically, Plato was hitting the nail on justice and equity of law, he stressed that a society should not be making laws based on a portion of the jurisdiction rather order should be maintained on equality and fair justice.

The book is a treaty on how a social society and a normal state is to be ressuracted from the clamouring segregation of the rich state and the poor society. in his work of art plato pulls the trigger of justice towards equity, unity and peace of justice. its such a great book, it is more than the wordings on it because it contains ancient landmarks of literary work of art, the work has been done long ago, and it grammer complex needs not be rushed but remember that the day a man stops reading, he stops growing intellectually. how i wished books were paste. i could have kept reading each day first thing as i woke up from the sleep. The Republic needs not be rush, just slow and steady because it is a treaty and not a mere thriller novel. but its a try from all intellectual aspirants. so dont let go. if you do, you missed a book from one great thinker.

A thorough view of 400 B.C. Greece (2003-03-19)

Here one can found Plato's view on many topics important to philosophical thinking of all times, but which could be summarized by the search of the true meanings of the adjectives "just" and its antinomy "unjust", and if it pays to be just and, if so, what is the proper reward for such a conduct and the proper punishment to its contrary behavior. The method utilized by Plato is the dialectical method and the reader is guided trough discoursive logical reasonning till he arrives at Plato's conclusions on many matters he sees as essential to pursue the objective of knowing what is the reward of a just conduct in human life. Issues like infanticide, women's position in society, slavery and many others are approached in a very direct way and one can be surprised at the position Plato takes in regard of each one of them. The Introductory explanation made by the translator, which also guides all of us trough the intrincacies of the challenges he faced in the translations, addds value and concistency to the reading, which is a classic and a must for everyone interested in History of Greece, the heritage it bequeathed to the Western civilization and the fist sound steps of philosophical thinking, which can be traced back to no the Greece Antiquity.

Buy this book! (2002-09-06)

This is more of a review of the translation, as opposed to the text itself. The Republic is a classic, and like Shakespeare, or the Mona Lisa, needs no review or comment. This is not to say that I agree with everything Socrates-Plato says, but that this book lifts you higher, weather you agree or disagree.

Tom Griffith deserves an award for rendering a bouncy translation that makes the text come alive. This translation ranks among my favorites. Its strength is that it renders the Greek into a colloquial, conversational English, as opposed to the stiff and ossified academic dronings that make higher education such a joy!

He follows the pattern set by Seamus Heany ("Beowulf), and J. B. Phillips ("The New Testament in Modern English"), where the language illuminates the text, and engages your mind. Too often, the translators' end product-the language-gets in the way of the ideas and joys of the text. I was able to plow through this book in a fortnight because the language flowed so well.

I wish we could get more translators to get the gift of tongues, and to render these classic texts into the tongue of angels!

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