The Third Edition, Revised and Corrected Throughout.
Oxford, At the Clarendon Press, 1888
Since the mid-nineteenth century, the Republic has been Plato's most famous and widely read dialogue. As in most other Platonic dialogues the main character is Socrates. It is generally accepted that the Republic belongs to the dialogues of Plato's middle period. In Plato's early dialogues, Socrates refutes the accounts of his interlocutors and the discussion ends with no satisfactory answer to the matter investigated. In the Republic however, we encounter Socrates developing a position on justice and its relation to eudaimonia (happiness). He provides a long and complicated, but unified argument, in defence of the just life and its necessary connection to the happy life.
Large 8vo (225 x 160 mm); internally fine; St. Paul's School presentation binding of full polished calf, gilt panelled, the school crest in gilt to upper board, gilt tooled spine, marbled endpapers and all edges gilt, presentation bookplate to upper pastedown, dated 1913, light fading to spine and upper edge of front board, minor rubbing, otherwise very good: ccxxxi, [blank], 370, [blank]pp.
Large 8vo (225 x 160 mm); internally fine; St. Paul's School presentation binding of full polished calf, gilt panelled, the school crest in gilt to upper board, gilt tooled spine, marbled endpapers and all edges gilt, presentation bookplate to upper pastedown, dated 1913, light fading to spine and upper edge of front board, minor rubbing, otherwise very good: ccxxxi, [blank], 370, [blank]pp.
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