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Books That Changed the World
Atlantic Monthly Press
June 2007
On Sale: June 10, 2007
192 pages
ISBN: 087113957X
EAN: 9780871139573
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Plato is perhaps the most significant philosopher who has
ever lived and The Republic, composed in Athens in about 375
BC, is widely regarded as his most famous dialogue. Its
discussion of the perfect city — and the perfect mind —
laid the foundations for Western culture and, for over two
thousand years, has been the cornerstone of Western
philosophy. As the distinguished Cambridge professor Simon
Blackburn points out, it has probably sustained more
commentary, and been subject to more radical and impassioned
disagreement, than almost any other of the great founding
texts of the modern world. In Plato’s Republic, Blackburn
explains the judicial, moral and political ideas in the
Republic with dazzling insight and clarity. Blackburn also
examines Republic’s remarkable influence and unquestioned
staying power, and shows why, from St. Augustine to
twentieth century philosophers such as Ludwig Wittgenstein
and Henri Bergson, Western thought is still conditioned by
this most important, and contemporary, of books.
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