Republic

Plato''s best-known work, The Republic was written around 380 BC. Largely a Socratic dialogue concerning justice, the order and character of the just city-state and the just man, it serves as the forerunner for such other classics of political thought as Cicero''s De Republica, St. Augustine''s City of God, and Thomas More''s Utopia. Among the ideas put forth are the eternal conflict between the w...