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.

We find it in Plato's Republic, and in Utopia More acknowledges his debt to that book.

In Plato's Republic communism is -- to speak anachronistically -- a communism of Janissaries.

Moreover, it is too readily forgotten that in the Republic what gave the initial impetus to Plato's excursus into the construction of an imaginary commonwealth with its ruling-class communism of goods, wives, and children, was his quest for a canon for the proper ordering of the individual human psyche ; ;

To derive Utopian communism from the Jerusalem Christian community of the apostolic age or from its medieval successors-in-spirit, the monastic communities, is with an appropriate shift of adjectives, misleading in the same way as to derive it from Plato's Republic: in the Republic we have to do with an elite of physical and intellectual athletes, in the apostolic and monastic communities with an elite of spiritual and religious athletes.

In the introduction, Socrates muses about the perfect society, described in Plato's Republic ( c. 380 BC ), and wonders if he and his guests might recollect a story which exemplifies such a society.

In Plato's Republic, the origin of the state lies in the natural inequality of humanity, which is embodied in the division of labour.

In the Western tradition of philosophy, the earliest known comprehensive treatments of the subject are from Plato's Phaedo, Republic, and Statesman and Aristotle's Metaphysics, though earlier fragmentary writing exists.

"-Socrates, in Plato's Republic.

Fortunately for Herbert, Uppark had a magnificent library in which he immersed himself, reading many classic works, including Plato's Republic, and More's Utopia.

Plato's version of the law of noncontradiction states that " The same thing clearly cannot act or be acted upon in the same part or in relation to the same thing at the same time, in contrary ways " ( The Republic ( 436b )).

The Myth of Er at the end of Plato's Republic tells of the dead arriving at the " plain of Lethe ", through which the river Ameles (" careless ") runs.

* Cultural influence of Plato's Republic

Averroes ( Ibn Rushd ), in his treatise on Justice and Jihad and his commentary on Plato's Republic, writes that the human mind can know of the unlawfulness of killing and stealing and thus of the five maqasid or higher intents of the Islamic sharia or to protect religion, life, property, offspring, and reason.

Western political philosophy originates in the philosophy of ancient Greece, where political philosophy begins with Plato's Republic in the 4th century BC.

One of the first, extremely important classical works of political philosophy is Plato's Republic, which was followed by Aristotle's Nichomachean Ethics and Politics.

The Arabs lost sight of Aristotle's political science but continued to study Plato's Republic which became the basic text of Judeo-Islamic political philosophy as in the works of Alfarabi and Averroes ; this did not happen in the Christian world, where Aristotle's Politics was translated in the 13th century and became the basic text as in the works of Saint Thomas Aquinas.

Averroe did not have at hand a text of Aristotle's Politics, so he wrote a commentary on Plato's Republic instead.

Plato's own articulation of realism regarding the existence of universals is expounded in his dialogue The Republic and elsewhere, notably in the Phaedo, the Phaedrus, the Meno and the Parmenides.

Because it is beyond being ( epekeina tes ousias is a phrase from Plato's Republic 509b ), it is also beyond thought, because thinking requires the determinations which belong to being: the division between subject and object, and the distinction of one thing from another.

* Commentary on Plato's " Republic "

Plato's dialogue on the ideal state, The Republic, is misnamed by the standards of modern political theory.

Plato's Allegory of the Cave, which appears in book VII of The Republic, is a description of such a journey, as are the writings of Teresa of Avila.

A centre for the arts, learning and philosophy, home of Plato's Academy and Aristotle's Lyceum, it is widely referred to as the cradle of Western civilization and the birthplace of democracy, largely due to the impact of its cultural and political achievements during the 5th and 4th centuries BC in later centuries on the rest of the then known European continent.

Plotinus sought to reconcile Aristotle's energeia with Plato's Demiurge, which, as Demiurge and mind ( nous ), is a critical component in the ontological construct of human consciousness used to explain and clarify substance theory within Platonic realism ( also called idealism ).

Thus, a triad is formed of the intelligible nous, the intellective nous, and the psyche in order to reconcile further the various Hellenistic philosophical schools of Aristotle's actus and potentia of the unmoved mover and Plato's Demiurge.

The most important determinate natures are the Greatest Kinds from Plato's Sophist ( Being, Same, Other, Rest, Motion ) and Aristotle's ten categories ( Quantity, Quality, etc .).

His was the first permanent school in Athens and it is likely that Plato's Academy and Aristotle's Lyceum were founded in part as a response to Isocrates.

Socrates ', Plato's and Aristotle's ideas about truth are commonly seen as consistent with correspondence theory.

Plotinus here resolves the issues between Plato's ontology and Aristotle's Actus et potentia.

Plotinus here then reconciles the " Good over the Demiurge " from Plato's Timaeus with Aristotle's static " unmoved mover " of Actus et potentia.

He wrote at least 67 original works, which included 28 works on philosophy, 20 on medicine, 8 on law, 5 on theology, and 4 on grammar, in addition to his commentaries on most of Aristotle's works and his commentary on Plato's The Republic.

Criticizing al-Farabi's attempt to merge Plato and Aristotle's ideas, Averroes argued that Aristotle's philosophy diverged in significant ways from Plato's.

According to Fakhry, this represents a change from Plato's theory of Ideas, where ideas precede particulars, to Aristotle's theory where particulars come first and the essence is " arrived at by a process of abstraction.

Averroes, not having access to Aristotle's Politics, substituted Plato's Republic.

Equally important to later developments are texts on poetry, rhetoric, and sophistry, including many of Plato's dialogues, such as Cratylus, Ion, Gorgias, Lesser Hippias, and Republic, along with Aristotle's Poetics, Rhetoric, and On Sophistical Refutations.

In De Differentiis Plethon compares Aristotle's and Plato's conceptions of God, arguing that Plato credits God with more exalted powers as " creator of every kind of intelligible and separate substance, and hence of our entire universe ", while Aristotle has Him as only the motive force of the universe ; Plato's God is also the end and final cause of existence, while Aristotle's God is only the end of movement and change.

Later, in response to Gennadius ' Defence of Aristotle, Plethon argued in his Reply that Plato's God was more consistent with Christian doctrine than Aristotle's, and this, according to Darien DeBolt, was probably in part an attempt to escape suspicion of heterodoxy.

Aristotle, in the Politics, dismissed Plato's ideas about abolishing homosexuality ( 2. 4 ); he explains that barbarians like the Celts accorded it a special honour ( 2. 6. 6 ), while the Cretans used it to regulate the population ( 2. 7. 5 ).

* Christina H. Tarnopolsky, Prudes, Perverts, and Tyrants: Plato's Gorgias and the Politics of Shame ( Princeton, PUP, 2010 ).

Aristotle largely embraced Plato's ideas and in his Politics three types ( excluding timocracy ) are discussed in detail.