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Reflections on Plato's Republic

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 February 2009

Alfred E. Garvie M.A., D.D., D.Th.
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In his greatest work (The Republic) the greatest thinker of his era, if not of all time, Plato, writing in one of the greatest, if not even the greatest epoch in the intellectual, artistic, and literary history of mankind, held up a mirror not only to his own age but to every age, not least our own, in the glowing radiance of his unsurpassed genius. This essay is an attempt to look on the world around us with his searchlight. Addressing on this subject a select company of educated and intelligent men and women, I discovered that several of them had attempted but had failed to read through The Republic. They could not see the wood for the trees, lost their way, and gave up the guest.

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Philosophy , Volume 12 , Issue 48 , October 1937 , pp. 424 - 431
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Copyright © The Royal Institute of Philosophy 1937

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