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Republic
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In the Piraeus, at Cephalus' house, Socrates refutes the sophist Thrasymachus' definition of justice (book I, Socratic in manner) and, at the request of Glaucon and Adeimantus, builds an ideal city to see justice writ large. Books II–X set out the tripartite soul, the philosopher-rulers, the Form of the Good, the cave and the myth of Er: Plato's doctrine with Socrates as spokesman.
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Authorship note
A work by Plato, not by Socrates. It is a literary recreation composed after his teacher's death: it preserves features of the historical Socrates, but his words are those Plato gives him.
Editions and translations
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English
The Republic
Penguin Classics, 2007
Translation: Desmond Lee
ISBN 9780140455113
Socrates
The Republic
The Conscious LibraryThe Republic
Project Gutenberg (trad. de Benjamin Jowett, Clarendon Press), 1892
Translation: Benjamin Jowett
Dominio público.
Español
Socrates
La República o el Estado (argumento y facsímil)
The Conscious LibraryLa República o el Estado (argumento y facsímil)
Filosofía en español (Obras completas de Platón, Medina y Navarro), 1871
Translation: Patricio de Azcárate
Tomo 7 de la edición de 1871–1872. Dominio público.
Diálogos IV: República
Gredos (Biblioteca Clásica Gredos, 94), 2020
Translation: Conrado Eggers Lan
ISBN 9788424939373
Reimpresión; primera edición en 1986.
Other works by Socrates
- Apology of Socrates · 395
- Crito · 395
- Phaedo · 385
- Euthyphro · 395
- Symposium · 380
- Laches · 390
- Charmides · 390
- Lysis · 390
- Protagoras · 385
- Gorgias · 385
- Meno · 385
- Ion · 395
- Lesser Hippias · 395
- Euthydemus · 385
- Theaetetus · 369
- Phaedrus · 370
- Greater Hippias · 390
- First Alcibiades · 360
- Parmenides · 365
- Other dialogues of the Platonic corpus featuring Socrates · 360
- Memorabilia (Memoirs of Socrates) · 371
- Apology of Socrates (Xenophon) · 380
- Symposium (Xenophon) · 380
- Oeconomicus (The Estate Manager) · 362
- The Clouds (Aristophanes) · 423
- Aristotle's testimonies on Socrates · 340
- Life of Socrates (Diogenes Laertius, Lives II 18–47) · 230
- Fragments of the other Socratics (Aeschines of Sphettus, Antisthenes, Phaedo, Euclides) · 380
- Verses composed in prison (lost) · 399
- Socratic Epistles · 200
Sources
- Platón. Platonis Opera, ed. John Burnet, 5 vols. Oxford University Press (Oxford Classical Texts), 1900–1907; tomo I (Eutifrón, Apología, Critón, Fedón) consultado en la edición digital del Perseus Digital Library (Tufts University).
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