The book is actually an in-depth recording of a philosophy contest between Plato's teacher Socrates and several other great philosophers. ... Socrates" first major argument is with Thrasymachus in Book I. ... (Book VII, section 524) What this means is that the eyes alone cannot distinguish what is right from what is wrong since they contribute to many sins, such as lust, coveting, and several others. ... (Book VII, section 524). ... What the State does not have is a tyrant, which Socrates goes into great detail about in Book IX. ...

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At several points, the Politics looks back to the conception of the highest human good worked out in the Nicomachean Ethics, and the concluding chapter of the Nicomachean Ethics (X.9) looks forward to the Politics, culminating in a list of questions about political systems which corresponds reasonably well to the questions he addresses in the Politics, as the following chart indicates: Outline of the Politics Questions in Nicomachean Ethics X.9.1181b17-24 Book I: types of communities: the city, the household; household management Book II: critical survey of proposed and actual constitutio...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

In book VII of The Republic, Plato puts into words the life of another great philosopher of the time, Socrates. ... Book VII of Plato's The Republic (which, for ease, will be referred to as The Cave) is an allegory about society and the restraints that are placed on members as well as education or the lack there of and the consequences. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

-(Plato's Republic, Book vii, 518) No scheme of human life was so important to Plato as education. ... He expresses in Republic that the whole function of education is not to put knowledge into the soul, & to do so by directing it to the right objects. ... However education in the Republic is exclusively meant for those who are to become the rulers of the ideal state. ...

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• Grade Level: High School