The Republic

The Republic is the most famous book and most influential of Plato's philosophy. This Platonic dialogue focuses on justice in the individual and in the city. It is both a political and psychological dialogue which emphasizes mostly around the idea of justice to the extent that its purpose is precisely to show that one can not be separated from each other, that politics is nothing more than attempts by man to bring order, or disorder. In this text, Plato describes it's ideal city as the environment most conducive to the fullness of justice. This edition contains 10 books and is translated by Benjamin Jowett of the University of Oxford.