Republic, Volume II: Books 6–10 Robert Powell Setting aside the familiar narrative

Setting aside the familiar narrative themes

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Republic, Volume II: Books 6–10 Robert Powell Setting aside the familiar narrativeThe Platonic ideal of government. Plato of Athens, who laid the foundations of the Western philosophical tradition and in range and depth ranks among its greatest practitioners, was born to a prosperous and politically active family ca. 427 BC. In early life an admirer of Socrates, Plato later founded the first institution of higher learning in the West, the Academy, among whose many notable alumni was Aristotle. Traditionally ascribed to Plato are