![]() ![]() Karl Popper famously accused The Republic of being a blueprint for illiberal, closed societies. ![]() Yet Martin Luther King Jr nominated The Republic as the one book he would have taken to a deserted island, alongside the Bible. The Nazis pointed to the text’s seeming advocacy of eugenics. ![]() Little surprise then, that The Republic continues to be claimed by people with the most diverse convictions and agendas. There are few subjects that Plato’s masterpiece does not touch or play on: political theory, education, myth, psychology, ethics, epistemology, cultural criticism, drama and comedy. 375 BCE), featuring Plato’s teacher Socrates in dialogue with several friends, is unquestionably central to Plato’s thought. Western philosophy is a series of footnotes to Plato, the old saying goes. An illustration of the allegory of the cave from Plato’s Republic.Ĥedges/Wikimedia Commons Matthew Sharpe, Deakin University ![]()
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