The Republic - Plato a warrior for the cause

a warrior for the cause whose steed is the fearsome cart horse Strength of the Proletariat

listening to jazz and opera and drinking beer at the kitchen table

Under increasing pressure to marry

Her daily life is lived to the rhythms of the hilarious and touching confidences of random visitors and her colleagues - three gravediggers

sexual experimentation and the city’s twenty-four-hour party scene – an ideal existence shared by an entire generation and tantalisingly lived out on social media

The Republic - Plato a warrior for the causePlato's Republic is widely acknowledged as one of the most influential works in the history of philosophy. Presented in the form of a dialogue between Socrates and three different interlocutors, it is an inquiry into the notion of a perfect community and the ideal individual within it. During the conversation other questions are raised: what is goodness; what is reality; what is knowledge; what is the purpose of education? With remarkable lucidity and