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The Republic
Paperback
PhilosophyGeneral Political Science
ISBN13: 9789355176684
Publisher: Insight Publica
Published: Feb 28 2026
Pages: 292
Weight: 0.72
Height: 0.66 Width: 5.32 Depth: 8.47
Language: Malayalam
Plato's Republic
Plato (427-347 BCE) lived during a time when Athens was being deeply questioned. The Peloponnesian War shattered the pride of that city-state; democracy and oligarchy alternated in power, and the hearts of citizens were caught in confusion. The Republic was born from the mind of a young thinker shaped by the heat of that turbulent era.
Yet the deeper fire within this work was something else - the death of his teacher. Socrates, the most righteous man in Plato's life, was made to drink poison by the will of the people. That moment burned within Plato as a question: What form of government is truly capable of embodying justice?
It was in search of an answer to that question that The Republic was written. Composed in the fourth century BCE, this work is not a constitutional blueprint; it is a philosophical dialogue that weaves together justice, the soul, education, governance, beauty, and truth - each linked to the other. Socrates appears as both questioner and respondent, and in every exchange a new layer of truth unfolds. More than providing answers, the dialogue offers the experience of questions becoming clearer.
After completing this work, Plato founded the Academy - one of the earliest institutions of higher learning in world history, a house of knowledge that endured for nearly nine centuries. There, philosophy was life; here, in this text, philosophy becomes language.
To read The Republic is not merely to read a classic - it is to recognize that questions posed twenty-four centuries ago are still waiting for answers today.
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