SCRIPTURA

Philosophy

The Republic · Πολιτεία

Plato

Translated by Paul Shorey

What is justice, and is the just life the happier one? Socrates builds a city in words to find out: the guardians, the cave, the philosopher-kings, the myth of Er. Burnet’s Greek beside Shorey’s English, Stephanus section by section.

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  • Greek: Platonis Opera, vol. IV, ed. John Burnet (Oxford: Clarendon Press), from the Perseus Digital Library (canonical-greekLit, tlg0059.tlg030.perseus-grc2, CC BY-SA 4.0).
  • English: Paul Shorey, Plato: The Republic (Loeb Classical Library, Plato in Twelve Volumes, vols. 5–6; Harvard University Press and Heinemann), from the Perseus Digital Library (tlg0059.tlg030.perseus-eng2). Shorey’s notes are not included.
  • Rows follow the Stephanus sections (327a, 327b, …); each cut is moved to the end of the sentence it falls in.

Contents · 31

  1. 1Book I · 327a–336e
  2. 2Book I · 337a–346e
  3. 3Book I · 347a–354c
  4. 4Book II · 357a–365e
  5. 5Book II · 366a–374e
  6. 6Book II · 375a–383c
  7. 7Book III · 386a–393e
  8. 8Book III · 394a–401e
  9. 9Book III · 402a–409e
  10. 10Book III · 410a–417b
  11. 11Book IV · 419a–427e
  12. 12Book IV · 428a–436e
  13. 13Book IV · 437a–445e
  14. 14Book V · 449a–456e
  15. 15Book V · 457a–464e
  16. 16Book V · 465a–472e
  17. 17Book V · 473a–480a
  18. 18Book VI · 484a–493e
  19. 19Book VI · 494a–503e
  20. 20Book VI · 504a–511e
  21. 21Book VII · 514a–523e
  22. 22Book VII · 524a–533e
  23. 23Book VII · 534a–541b
  24. 24Book VIII · 543a–551e
  25. 25Book VIII · 552a–560d
  26. 26Book VIII · 561a–569c
  27. 27Book IX · 571a–581e
  28. 28Book IX · 582a–592b
  29. 29Book X · 595a–603e
  30. 30Book X · 604a–612e
  31. 31Book X · 613a–621d