The Republic is a Socratic dialogue by Plato, written around 375 BC, concerning justice and the order and character of the just city-state and the just man. It is Plato's best-known work and one of the world's most influential works of philosophy and political theory.
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YearWikipedia lead states only "around 375 BC"; not translated to an exact year. BCE recorded here (the schema's closed era-label set accepts CE/BCE, not BC/AD) consistent with Plato's known lifespan, c. 428/427 to 348/347 BC. The source renders a non-breaking space between the numeral and its era marker; the Quote below stops just before that character to avoid an encoding artifact. Classification
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concerning justice, the order and character of the just city-state, and the just man
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The Republic is a Socratic dialogue authored by Plato around 375
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The Republic is a Socratic dialogue by Plato, written around 375 BC, concerning justice and the order and character of the just city-state and the just man.
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in Plato’s Republic , Socrates argues that justice in the soul consists in each
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