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Book |
Stephanus Numbers
Links to sections of Jowett, trans.
The Republic of Plato
on this website |
Pages in IH Paths to Civilization, volume I |
Pages in
Grube-Reeve, trans. The Republic of Plato (available at the bookstore) |
Pages in
Grube, trans.,
The Republic of Plato
|
Topic |
|
I |
327a-328c |
98-99 |
2-3 |
2-3 |
The setting: the festival and
the home of Cephalus |
|
I |
328d-331b |
|
3-5 |
3-5 |
Cephalus’s reflections on
sex, money and justice. |
|
I |
331b-332c |
99-100 |
5-6 |
5-6 |
Socrates’s critique of
Polemarchus’s view of justice understood as paying debts |
| I |
333c-336b |
100-101 |
8-12 |
|
Socrates’s critique of
Polemarchus’s view of justice understood as helping friends and
harming enemies. |
|
I |
338a-339b |
102-103 |
14-15 |
12-13 |
Thrasymachus’s first
critique of justice: justice is the interest of the stronger. |
|
I |
341c-342e |
|
17-19 |
15-16 |
Socrates’s response to
Thrasymachus: Craftspeople seek the benefit of those over which they
rule. |
|
I |
342d-345b |
103-104 |
19-21 |
16-18 |
Thrasymachus’s second
critique of justice: justice is the good of another. |
| I |
345b-346d |
|
21-22 |
18-19 |
Socrates’s response to
Thrasymachus: the wage-earner’s craft. |
|
II |
357-358b
358b-362cd |
104-106 |
33-34
34-38 |
30-34 |
Glaucon’s challenge: the
appeal of injustice |
|
II |
368c-368e
368e-372c |
|
43
43-47 |
39-42 |
Justice in the city and in the
soul;
The city and the lack of self-sufficiency;
One person, one job;
The city of pigs |
|
II |
372c-376c |
|
47-51 |
42-46 |
The luxurious city;
The origins of war;
The necessary qualities of a guardian |
|
II |
376e-378b |
|
52-54 |
46-48 |
The importance of the arts in
the education of the Guardians.
Censorship of stories about the Gods. |
|
III |
398b-399e |
|
74-76 |
68-69 |
Censorship of mode and rhythm. |
|
III |
401d to 402e
402e-403e |
|
78-79
79-80 |
72-73 |
Moderation in sexuality.
Love of the beautiful. |
|
III |
410c-412b |
|
86-88 |
78-80 |
Art and gymnastic in the
shaping of souls. |
|
III |
412b-414b |
|
88-90 |
80-82 |
The guardians distinguished
from the auxiliaries. |
|
III |
414b-415d |
120-121 |
91-92 |
82-83 |
The noble lie. |
|
III |
416d-417bc |
|
92-93 |
84 |
An introduction to how the
Guardians live. |
|
IV |
419-424 |
|
95-99 |
85-89 |
Happiness of the guardians.
War and the just city. |
|
IV |
427d-434d |
109-113 |
102-110 |
93-99 |
Justice in the city |
|
IV |
434d-436d |
114-115 |
110-112 |
99-101 |
Parts of the soul |
|
IV |
439a-444b |
115-118 |
114-120 |
103-107 |
Justice in the soul |
|
V |
449a-450a |
|
122-124 |
112-113 |
Introduction to the discussion
of the role of women in the ideal polis. |
|
V |
451d-452b |
|
125-126 |
114-115 |
Equality of women. |
|
V |
453b-453c
453c-455e |
|
127 |
115 |
Equality of women. |
|
V |
454d-455a
455a-455c |
|
128-129 |
116-117 |
Equality of women. |
|
V |
455c-e |
|
129 |
117 |
Equality of women. |
|
V |
457d-462d |
|
131-137 |
119-123 |
Women and children in common. |
|
V |
464-465d |
|
138-140 |
125-126 |
Why the community of women and
children is necessary. |
|
V |
472c-473e
473e-474a |
|
147-148
148-149 |
132-133 |
The possibility of creating a
just city.
The rule of philosophers. |
V |
474a-474d
474d-476d |
|
149
149-151 |
134-136 |
What and who is a philosopher?
Lovers of various types. |
|
VI |
484b-485b
485b-485e |
118-119 |
157-158
158-159 |
142-143 |
The rule of philosophers. |
|
VI |
508b-509d |
108 |
181-183 |
162-164 |
The Sun |
| VI |
509d-513e |
|
183-185 |
164-`66 |
The Line |
|
VII |
514a-519b |
107-108 (514a-517)
109
(517b-517c)
109
(518c-518d) |
191-193 |
168-172 |
The cave, The Good |
|
VII |
519d-521b |
119-120 |
191-193 |
172-173 |
Compelling philosophers to
rule. |
|
VIII |
557b-558c
558c-559d |
|
227-228
228-230 |
206-207 |
Democracy |
|
VIII |
559d-562a |
121-122 |
230-232 |
208-210 |
Democratic man |
|
IX |
583c-587c |
|
253-258 |
230-234 |
Pleasure and pain; the
pleasure and pains of the different types of human beings |
