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Title: The Republic of Plato
Author: Plato
Translator: Benjamin Jowett
Release Date: July 26, 2017 [EBook #55201]
Language: English
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THE
REPUBLIC OF PLATO
JOWETT
London
HENRY FROWDE
OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS WAREHOUSE
AMEN CORNER, E. C.
Transcriber’s Note and List of Contents
Several editions of Jowett’s translation of Plato’s Republic were published in his lifetime, and many since. This text attempts to capture all that is of value in the early versions. It is based largely on the third edition, “revised and corrected throughout,” of 1888, but incorporating the complete Stephanus numbering that is found only in a two-volume version published in 1908. Sources gratefully exploited include an earlier Project Gutenberg version (#1497), an html version at the Online Library of Liberty, the Internet Archive (file of the 1888 edition: a604578400platuoft.pdf; volume 1 of the 1908 edition, in.ernet.dli.2015.223394, volume 2, in.ernet.dli.2015.223395), reference material at Distributed Proofreaders, and Wikimedia Commons.
Page numbers for the 1888 edition are given in-text printed in red. Stephanus numbers are given in the right margin. Sidenotes are given in the left margin. Things may be different on a small width screen: sidenotes and page numbers are removed, the Stephanus numbers are included in the body of the text in green. This means that most, but not all, internal cross-references should still work.
The 1888 edition does not have a Table of Contents. The following listing provides hyperlinks to distinct sections of the work.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
| Preface | ||
| INTRODUCTION AND ANALYSIS. | i | |
| Analysis and Introduction, Book I | xvi | |
| Analysis and Introduction, Book II | xxv | |
| Analysis and Introduction, Book III | xxxix | |
| Analysis and Introduction, Book IV | lvi | |
| Analysis and Introduction, Book V | lxix | |
| Analysis and Introduction, Book VI | lxxx | |
| Analysis and Introduction, Book VII | xcviii | |
| Analysis and Introduction, Book VIII | cxv | |
| Analysis and Introduction, Book IX | cxxxv | |
| Analysis and Introduction, Book X | cxlvi | |
| Other Issues: | clxix | |
| (I) the Janus-like character of the Republic | clxx | |
| (IIa) the paradoxes of the Republic: the community of property | clxxiv clxxv | |
| (IIb) the community of families | clxxix | |
| (IIc) the rule of philosophers | cxciv | |
| (IId) the analogy of the individual and the State | cxcviii | |
| (III) the subject of education | cc | |
| (IV) differences between ancient and modern politics | ccxi | |
| (V) comparison of the Politicus and the Laws | ccxiv | |
| (VI) influence exercised by Plato on his imitators | ccxvii | |
| (VII) nature and value of political ideals | ccxxix | |
| (VIII) nature and value of religious ideals | ccxxx | |
| Book I | 1 | |
| Book II | 36 | |
| Book III | 68 | |
| Book IV | 107 | |
| Book V | 140 | |
| Book VI | 180 | |
| Book VII | 214 | |
| Book VIII | 247 | |
| Book IX | 280 | |
| Book X | 307 | |
| Index | 339 | |
| A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z | ||
THE
REPUBLIC OF PLATO
TRANSLATED INTO ENGLISH
WITH
INTRODUCTION, ANALYSIS
MARGINAL ANALYSIS, AND INDEX
BY
B. JOWETT, M.A.
MASTER OF BALLIOL COLLEGE
REGIUS PROFESSOR OF GREEK IN THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD
DOCTOR IN THEOLOGY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF LEYDEN
THE THIRD EDITION
REVISED AND CORRECTED THROUGHOUT
Oxford
AT THE CLARENDON PRESS
M DCCC LXXXVIII
[All rights reserved]
TO MY FORMER PUPILS
IN BALLIOL COLLEGE
AND IN THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD,
WHO DURING FORTY-SIX YEARS
HAVE BEEN THE BEST OF FRIENDS TO ME,
THIS VOLUME IS INSCRIBED,
IN GRATEFUL RECOGNITION
OF THEIR NEVER FAILING ATTACHMENT.
PREFACE.
IN publishing a third edition of the Republic of Plato (originally included in my edition of Plato’s works), I have to acknowledge the assistance of several friends, especially of my secretary, Mr. Matthew Knight, now residing for his health at Davôs, and of Mr. Frank Fletcher, Exhibitioner of Balliol College. To their accuracy and scholarship I am under great obligations. The excellent index, in which are contained references to other dialogues as well as to the Republic, is entirely the work of Mr. Knight. I am also considerably indebted to Mr. J. W. MacKail, Fellow of Balliol College, who read over the whole book in the previous edition, and noted several inaccuracies.
The additions and alterations both in the introduction and in the text, affect at least a third of the work.
Having regard to the extent of these alterations, and to the annoyance which is felt by the owner of a book at the possession of it in an inferior form, and still more keenly by the writer himself, who must always desire to be read as he is at his best, I have thought that some persons might like to exchange for the new edition the separate edition of the Republic published in 1881, to which this present volume is the successor. I have therefore arranged that those who desire to make this exchange, on depositing a perfect copy of the former separate edition with any agent of the Clarendon Press, shall be entitled to receive the new edition at half-price.
It is my hope to issue a revised edition of the remaining Dialogues in the course of a year.