Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Preface vii
4. Acknowledgements xi
5. 1 Plato and the Republic 1
6. 2 The Challenge to Socrates (1.327a- 11.367e) 9
7. 3 Basic Principles of Social Life and Human Nature (11.367e-11.376c) 20
8. 4 Education and the Life of the Guardians (11.37 6c-IV.427 e) 32
9. 5 Communism and the Individual (111.415d-IV.427 c) 45
10. 6 Justice m Society (IV.427d-434d) 56
11. 7 Justice in the Individual (IV.434d-V.449a) 68
12. 8 Women and the Family (V.449a-V.471 c) 82
13. 9 Philosophy and Society (V.471 c-VI.502c) 93
14. 10 The Theory of Forms 106
15. 11 The Line, the Cave and Higher Education {VI.509d-VII.541 b) 122
16. 12 The Reply to the Sophists (VIII.543a-IX.592b) 135
17. 13 The Quarrel between Philosophy and Poetry (X.S9Sa-608b) 148
18. 14 The Rewards of Justice (X.608c-621 d) 158
19. Bibliography 164
20. Index 175