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The Republic: English Text is unavailable, but you can change that!

Philosopher and mathematician A. N. Whitehead once claimed that “the safest general characterization of European philosophical tradition is that it consists of a series of footnotes to Plato.” It is difficult to disagree with him. Plato wrote seminal works on ethics, political theory, morality, epistemology, and metaphysics. His concept of forms went on to have a great influence on Christian...

that Simonides gave after the manner of poets; for while his meaning, [C] it seems, was that justice is rendering to each what befits him, the name that he gave to this was the due.’ ” “What else do you suppose?” said he. “In heaven’s name!” said I, “supposea someone had questioned him thus: ‘Tell me, Simonides, the art that renders what that is due and befitting to what is called the art of medicine.’b What do you take it would have been his answer?” “Obviously,” he said, “the art that renders
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