The Republic - Plato Under increasing pressure to marry

Under increasing pressure to marry

sexual experimentation and the city’s twenty-four-hour party scene – an ideal existence shared by an entire generation and tantalisingly lived out on social media

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but these sketches opened the minds of contemporary readers to the plight of the peasantry and were even said to have led Tsar Alexander II to abolish serfdom

Translator: Antonia Lloyd-Jones

The Republic - Plato Under increasing pressure to marryPlato's Republic is widely acknowledged as one of the most influential works in the history of philosophy. Presented in the form of a dialogue between Socrates and three different interlocutors, it is an inquiry into the notion of a perfect community and the ideal individual within it. During the conversation other questions are raised: what is goodness; what is reality; what is knowledge; what is the purpose of education? With remarkable lucidity and