All through The Republic, Plato attends to the way art relates to the general life and ultimately to a good life for his citizens.

Those who wanted to close the theaters, for example, pointed to Plato's Republic and those who wished to keep them open called on the Plato of the Ion to testify in their behalf.

In his dialogues ( e. g. Republic 399e, 592a ), Plato has Socrates utter, " by the dog " ( kai me ton kuna ), " by the dog of Egypt ", " by the dog, the god of the Egyptians " ( Gorgias, 482b ), for emphasis.

Clement, following Plato ( Republic 4: 441 ), divides life into three elements: character, actions and passions.

Silvermintz notes that, " Historians of economic thought credit Plato, primarily on account of arguments advanced in his Republic, as an early proponent of the division of labor .” Notwithstanding this, Silvermintz argues that, " While Plato recognizes both the economic and political benefits of the division of labor, he ultimately critiques this form of economic arrangement insofar as it hinders the individual from ordering his own soul by cultivating acquisitive motives over prudence and reason.

Politically motivated educational reforms of the democratic type are recorded as far back as Plato in The Republic.

At first approaching the subject through The Republic by Plato, he soon turned to contemporary ideas of socialism as expressed by the recently formed Fabian Society and free lectures delivered at Kelmscott House, the home of William Morris.

In his dialogue Republic, Plato uses Socrates to argue for justice that covers both the just person and the just City State.

In Republic by Plato, the character Thrasymachus argues that justice is the interest of the strong — merely a name for what the powerful or cunning ruler has imposed on the people.

In the Routledge philosophy guidebook to Plato and the Republic, Nickolas Pappas describes the " problem of misogyny " and states

Although Plato famously condemned poetic myth when discussing the education of the young in the Republic, primarily on the grounds that there was a danger that the young and uneducated might take the stories of Gods and heroes literally, nevertheless he constantly refers to myths of all kinds throughout his writings.

* The Republic ( Plato ), a dialogue by Plato

These authors, in such works as The Republic and Laws by Plato, and The Politics and Nicomachean Ethics by Aristotle, analyzed political systems philosophically, going beyond earlier Greek poetic and historical reflections which can be found in the works of epic poets like Homer and Hesiod, historians like Herodotus and Thucydides, and dramatists such as Sophocles, Aristophanes, and Euripides.

The majority of Proclus ' works are commentaries on dialogues of Plato ( Alcibiades, Cratylus, Parmenides, Republic, Timaeus ).

These four studies compose the secondary part of the curriculum outlined by Plato in The Republic, and are described in the seventh book of that work.

* Plato, The Republic.

In the Republic Plato makes Socrates tell how Er, the son of Armenius, miraculously returned to life on the twelfth day after death and recounted the secrets of the other world.

by Plato in The Republic, Book ii, Ch.

Plato, in his dialogue The Republic Book 6 ( 509D – 513E ), has Socrates explain through the literary device of a divided line his fundamental metaphysical ideas as four separate but logically connected models of the world.

In The Republic ( 509d-510a ), Plato describes the Divided Line this way:

* The Republic ( written around 380 BC ) by Plato is one of the earliest conceptions of a utopia.

* Plato, Republic ( esp.

The next sentence is often translated " Crantor adds, that this is testified by the prophets of the Egyptians, who assert that these particulars are narrated by Plato are written on pillars which are still preserved.

In this vein, he asserted that it was the task of contemporary philosophy to recover the original question of ( or " openness to ") Dasein ( translated as Being or Being-in-the-World ) present in the Presocratic philosophers but normalized, neutered and standardized since Plato.

It was first translated from Arabic into Latin by Plato of Tivoli ( Tiburtinus ) in 1138, while he was in Spain.

Both Merlin Donald and the Socratic authors such Plato and Aristotle emphasize the importance of mimesis, often translated as imitation or representation.

920 AD ), which was translated into Latin by Plato Tiburtinus ( De Motu Stellarum ).

* Plato, Theaetetus, translated with notes ( Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1973 )

He also translated George Orwell's 1984, three Dialogues of Plato, Denis Kincaid's book " The Great Rebel " about Shivaji and other books into Hindi.

In his lifetime, Ishaq translated 116 writings, including works by Plato and Aristotle, into Syriac and Arabic.

The Charmides ( Ancient Greek: ) is a dialogue of Plato, in which Socrates engages a handsome and popular boy in a conversation about the meaning of sophrosyne, a Greek word usually translated into English as " temperance ", " self-control ", or " restraint ".

It was translated in 1145 into Latin by Plato of Tivoli as Liber Embadorum ( the same year Robert of Chester translated al-Khwārizmī's Algebra.

This is the celebrated geometry translated in 1145 by Plato of Tivoli, under the title Liber Embadorum ( see Boncompagni in Atti dell ' Accademia dei Lincei, 1851, iv.

* Plato, Republic Book 2, translated by Benjamin Jowett ( 1892 ).

He also edited some of the dialogues of Plato with English notes including Meno, Parmenides, Statesman, and The Laws, and translated nearly the whole of that author and the Greek anthology for Bohn's Classical library.

It was one of the first astrological texts to be circulated in Medieval Europe after being translated from Arabic into Latin by Plato of Tivoli ( Tiburtinus ) in Spain, 1138.

In his closing years Lord Redesdale edited and wrote extensive effusive Introductions of two of Houston Stewart Chamberlain's huge books: Foundations of the Nineteenth Century and Immanuel Kant-A Study and Comparison with Goethe, Leonardo da Vinci, Bruno, Plato, and Descartes, both two volumes each, translated into English by John Lees, M. A., D. Litt., and published by John Lane at the Bodley Head, London, in 1910 and 1914.

In his lifetime, ibn Ishaq translated 116 works, including Plato ’ s Timaeus, Aristotle ’ s Metaphysics, and the Old Testament, into Syriac and Arabic.

Taylor was an admirer of Hellenism, most especially in the philosophical framework furnished by Plato and the Neoplatonists Proclus and the " most divine " Iamblichus, whose works he translated into English.

Wahl translated the second hypothesis of the Parmenides of Plato as " Il y a de l ' Un ", and Lacan adopted his translation as a central point in psychoanalysis, as a sort of antecedent in the Parmenides of the analytic discourse.

Henry Graham Dakyns, a Victorian-era scholar who translated many works by both Plato and Xenophon, believed that Plato knew of this work, and that it influenced him to some degree when he wrote his own Symposium.

* Theon, of Smyrna: Mathematics useful for understanding Plato ; translated from the 1892 Greek / French edition of J. Dupuis by Robert and Deborah Lawlor and edited and annotated by Christos Toulis and others ; with an appendix of notes by Dupuis, a copious glossary, index of works, etc.

Plato of Tivoli translated the Arab astrologer Albohali's " Book of Birth " into Latin in 1136.