UNDERSTANDING PLATO: Study Guides for the Socratic Dialogues and the Republic

This book is the first in a series of eight companion books to some of the classics of Western philosophy. The companion books attempt to help students and other readers understand the classics. Each book in the series organizes the central claims of a classic to clarify the question the philosopher is asking and the methods used to answer it. I make no assumption that the kind of question asked, or the method used to answer it, will always be the same as we move from one philosopher to ano...