The Republic: Benjamin

The argument of the Republic is the search after Justice, the nature of which is first hinted at by Cephalus, the just and blameless old man-then discussed on the basis of proverbial morality by Socrates and Polemarchus-then caricatured by Thrasymachus and partially explained by Socrates-reduced to an abstraction by Glaucon and Adeimantus, and having become invisible in the individual reappears at length in the ideal State which is constructed by Socrates. The first care of the rulers is to...