Great Philosophers of the Ancient World. . Republic

The Republic, composed in the fourth century BCE, is a dialogue in which Socrates and companions in Athens take up the question of justice in the soul and in the city. They imagine an ideal polis, discuss education, the role of guardians, the place of poetry, and the rule of philosopher-kings, and they examine forms of government from aristocracy to tyranny. The argument includes the allegory of the cave and an account of knowledge and the Forms. The work is philosophical drama rather than a treatise with a single voice: a long conversation about how a just life and a just state would have to be arranged.

Quarter-bound in dark brown leather with cream paper boards illustrated with an engraving of the relevant philosopher. Dark brown five-volume slipcase titled in gold.