Plato's Republic

Introduction by Kenneth ReinhardTranslator's PrefaceAuthor's Preface to the English EditionPrefaceCharactersPrologue: Conversation in the Villa on the Harbor (327a-336b)1 Reducing the Sophist to Silence (336b-357a)2 The Young Men's and Women's Pressing Questions (357a-368d)3 The Origins of Society and the State (368d-376c)4 The Disciplines of the Mind: Literature and Music (376c-403c)5 The Disciplines of the Body: Nutrition, Medicine andPhysical Education (403c-412c)6 Objective Justice (412c-434d)7 Subjective Justice (434d-449a)8 Women and Families (449a-471c)9 What is a Philosopher? (471c-484b)10 Philosophy and Politics (484b-502c)11 What is an Idea? (502c-521c)12 From Mathematics to the Dialectic (521c-541b)13 Critique of the Four Pre-communist Systems of Government:1. Timocracy and Oligarchy (541b-555b)14 Critique of the Four Pre-Communist Systems of Government:2. Democracy and Tyranny (555b-573b)15 Justice and Happiness (573b-592b)16 Poetry and Thought (592b-608b)Epilogue: The Mobile Eternity of Subjects (608b-end)NotesIndex