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Book · 380 BC · Nonfiction

The Republic

Plato
Penguin Classics (Penguin Random House) · 528 pages
★ 8.8 editorial score

Asked why anyone should be just when nobody is watching, Socrates answers by building an entire city in conversation. The allegory of the cave has never stopped explaining people to themselves.

Medium
Dialogue
Time
380 BCDepicts Classical Antiquity

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