Republic
Benjamin Jowett (1871)
Plato's longest and most ambitious dialogue, composed in Athens in the 4th century BCE. Beginning with the question "what is justice?", it builds an ideal city in speech in order to locate justice in the soul, and along the way advances Plato's most famous doctrines: the theory of forms, the philosopher-king, the tripartite soul, and the allegory of the cave. It is the single most influential work of political and moral philosophy in the Western tradition.
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