Today, I am going to describe "the Republic" written by Plato in about 360BC as I suggested in the last blog. In fact, I have the book written in Japanese with me now borrowing from our university. I found that I could take it up smoothly though I felt, at first sight of the book, it would be very difficult to read because of the classic book. Then, the reason why it can be read like the novel we read today is that it is written in the format of Socratic dialogue. That is to say, there are many conversations, for example, between Socrates and Glaucon who is an older brother of Plato, and Adeimantus who is another older brother of Plato. Briefly, in this work, Plato attempted to design an ideal society and government that were free of injustice and conflict. Moreover, through the dialogue, Plato was trying to repeat the way Socrates taught philosophy in exactly the same way by engaging his students on a significant question. Now, I will stop writing, and I believe I should add much more information on the content of "the Republic".
See you then,
Misaki
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