The Republic
Plato
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About this edition
Written 2,400 years ago in Athens. Still the most dangerous book on justice, power, and what a society owes its people — and what it demands in return.
The Republic is Plato's masterwork — a ten-book dialogue on the nature of justice, the structure of the ideal state, the education of leaders, and the dangers of unchecked power. It contains the Allegory of the Cave (the original red pill), the theory of the Philosopher King, and a systematic argument that most people live in comfortable illusions because the truth is too demanding.
This is where Western political philosophy begins. Every debate about government, education, censorship, class structure, and the responsibility of the strong to the weak traces back to arguments Plato laid out in these pages. It's been banned, burned, and required reading — often by the same institutions at different points in history.
If you want to understand why societies are built the way they are — and why they fail — start where every serious thinker for 2,400 years has started.
THIS EDITION
- Benjamin Jowett translation — the definitive English rendering
- Civil Savage Society cover and interior design
- ~380 pages | 6×9 trim | cream paper
- Available in paperback and hardcover
The cave is comfortable. The light is not. This book is the walk toward the exit.
