The Republic of Plato - Couverture rigide

Politeia the Commonwealth, or, as it is usually translated, the Republic of Plato is the crowning achievement of Plato sart and philosophy. This first human attempt at the intellectual creation of an ideal state stands, according to one enthusiastic commentator, on the same level in the world of speculation as the Agamemnon or the Parthenon in the world of A rt. The whole state is an imitation of the best and noblest life, runs a passage in theL aws; and it may be that in expounding his theory of the best state Plato was only expounding his ideas of the noblest form of life: such a life being best visible in the life of a community, and also being one that, although inborn in individuals, can only be fostered by careful education. For the idea that runs through the Republic is that the individual presents almost the same features and qualities as society, on a smaller scale, and in his argument Plato first considers the state and thence makes his deductions as to the individual.
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Plato was born 428/427 BCE, in Athens, Greece and died 348/347, in Athens. He is an ancient Greek philosopher, student of Socrates (c. 470–399 BCE), teacher of Aristotle (384–322 BCE), and founder of the Academy, best known as the author of philosophical works of unparalleled influence.