The Republic Plato The Republic is known as Plato's greatest piece of work. It consists of a group of different arguments on a great variety of subjects. They are different issues and items that occur when organizing a government. Plato's recommendations for the "Fair and Just" city are diverse and in some cases strange. Many of his ideas are extremely abstract, but make for an interesting story. The question at the center of the Republic …
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…Republic is that it makes an extremely well supported, well reasoned argument on these virtuous assumputions, and provides a complete way of looking at human good, rather than hiding from any hope of drawing concrete conclusions about right and wrong. Many other authors will state something of such in jus bland words. In other words, Plato doesn't just say it, he shows it. The Republic is truly an interesting book, with even more interesting views.