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The Reading Room
The Republic
25 chapters · about 253,000 words
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Book VII is a recapitulation of the divisions of knowledge in Book VI. The
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BOOK I. The Republic opens with a truly Greek scene--a festival in honour
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BOOK II. Thrasymachus is pacified, *357* but the intrepid Glaucon insists
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BOOK III. *386* There is another motive in purifying religion, which is to
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BOOK IV. *419* Adeimantus said: 'Suppose a person to argue, Socrates, that
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part in the individual soul; reason, the superior, and passion, the
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BOOK V. *449* I was going to enumerate the four forms of vice or decline
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The Republic — read in full — Paul Maxwell
BOOK VI. *484* Having determined that the many have no knowledge of true
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BOOK VII. *514* And now I will describe in a figure the enlightenment or
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BOOK VIII. *543* And so we have arrived at the conclusion, that in the
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Book ix; the hint to the poets that if they are the friends of tyrants
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BOOK IX. *571* Last of all comes the tyrannical man, about whom we have to
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BOOK X. *595* Many things pleased me in the order of our State, but there
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book is not really what to most persons the title of it would imply, and
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BOOK I
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BOOK II.
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BOOK III.
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BOOK IV.
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BOOK V.
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BOOK VI.
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BOOK VII.
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part in her government.]
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BOOK VIII.
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BOOK IX.
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BOOK X.