THE REPUBLIC OF PLATO - Studyplace

More documents

Recommendations

Info

OXFORD UN IVERSITY PRESS Oxford london New York Glasgow Toronto Melbourne Wellington Cape Town Salisbury Ibadan Nairobi lusaka Addis Ababa Bombay Calcutta Madras Karachi lahore Dacca Kuala lumpur Hong Kong Tokyo First published by Oxford University Press, london, 1941 First issued as an Oxford University Press paperback, 1945 This reprint, 1970-3 Printed in the United States of America
PREFACE THIS version aims at conveying to the English reader as much as possible of the thought of the Republic in the most convenient and least misleading form. I have, accordingly, taken certain liberties, which it is reasonable to suppose that Plato would have sanctioned in an edition prepared for the modern press. The traditional division into ten 'books,' i.e. papyrus rolls, has been discarded, as an accidental expedient of ancient book-production, having little more to do with the structure of the argument than the division of every Victorian novel into three volumes had to do with the structure of the stories. The dialogue falls naturally into six main parts, and these I have subdivided, where minor breaks occur, into forty chapters. The notes prefixed to the chapters are designed to hold the thread of the argument and to explain matters which Plato could take for granted as within the common knowledge of his readers. The sole purpose is to bring out what Plato meant, not to attack or defend his opinions. These are better left to the judgement of the reader. For sympathetic and more detailed interpretation, the best guide known to me is R. L. Nettleship's Lectures on the Republic of Plato. Professor Ernest Barker's Greek Political Theory (1918) reviews all Plato's works and the speculations of his predecessors in this field. In Plato To-day Mr. R. H. S. Crossman has made a lively and provocative experiment in confronting Plato with the political problems of the present day. Some authors can be translated almost word for word. The reader may fairly claim to be told why this method cannot do justice to the matter and the manner of Plato's discourse. In brief, the answer is that in many places the effect in English is misleading, or tedious, or grotesque and silly, or pompous and verbose. Since no scholar would apply most of these epithets to the original, there must be something wrong with the current practice of translators. Many key-words, such as 'music,' 'gymnastic,' 'virtue,' 'philov
Page 1: THE REPUBLIC OF PLATO 'I'IlANSLATBD
Page 5 and 6: PREFACE Here, even if the double qu
Page 7: PREFACE himself to Davies and Vaugh
Page 10 and 11: xii CONTENTS PART II, APPENDIX (BOO
Page 13 and 14: INTRODUCTION PLATO, son of Ariston
Page 15 and 16: INTRODUCTION xvii to extremes of vi
Page 17 and 18: INl1lODUcnON will not be fit to adv
Page 19 and 20: 1NTtlODUCTION natural right of the
Page 21 and 22: INTIlODUcnoN xxiii death do not see
Page 23 and 24: INTRODUcnON xxv 'At last I perceive
Page 25 and 26: INTRODUCl'ION xxvii was itself unde
Page 27: INTRODUCTION and assurance as in de
Page 30 and 31: 2' CHAPTER 1 [I. 327 If a man of sc
Page 32 and 33: 4 CHAPTER I [I. 3~ found his brothe
Page 34 and 35: 6 CHAPTER I [I. 330 now and more th
Page 36 and 37: 8 CHAPTER n [I. 331 these can tell
Page 38 and 39: 10 CHAPTER U Cr. 332 d.ering to som
Page 40 and 41: 12 CHAPTER II [I. 334 grandfather A
Page 42 and 43: 14 CHAPTER II [I. 335 But a musicia
Page 44 and 45: 16 CHAPTER III it is the same as wh
Page 46 and 47: 18 CHAPTER III [I. 338 you are wron
Page 48 and 49: 20 CHAPTER III [I. 340 No doubt, Cl
Page 50 and 51: CHAPTER III [I. 341 capacity, negle
Page 52 and 53:
24 CHAPTER III [L 343 power over th
Page 54 and 55:
CHAPTER III [I. 344- wholesale way.
Page 56 and 57:
28 CHAPTER III (I. 346 would not sa
Page 58 and 59:
CHAPTER IV (I. 347 E-354 c) THRASYM
Page 60 and 61:
32 CHAPTER IV [I. 349 make themsdve
Page 62 and 63:
34 CHAPTER IV lL 350 that justice i
Page 64 and 65:
CHAPTE.R IV [I. 352 And 'all who ar
Page 66 and 67:
38 CHAPTER IV [I. 352 is useful for
Page 68 and 69:
40 CHAPTEll IV [L 3'. as another id
Page 70 and 71:
42 CHAPTER V [u. 357 natural man wo
Page 72 and 73:
44 CHAPTER V [0.359 and the harm to
Page 74 and 75:
46 CHAPTER V [no 361 and can always
Page 76 and 77:
48 CHAPTER V [n. 363 must listen to
Page 78 and 79:
50 CHAPTER V [no 364 transgresses a
Page 80 and 81:
52 CHAPTER V [D. 366 have not the s
Page 82 and 83:
54 CHAPTER VI [II. 367 Thrasymachus
Page 84 and 85:
S6 CHAPTER VI [u. 369 SO, having al
Page 86 and 87:
58 CHAPTEk VI [II. 371 all kinds of
Page 88 and 89:
60 CHAPTER VII [n·372 a world-stat
Page 90 and 91:
~ ~~m ~rn that we have discovered i
Page 92 and 93:
64 CHAPTER VIII [D. 315 less they s
Page 94:
66 CHAPTER VIII [II. 376 Shall we b
show all

THE REPUBLIC OF PLATO - Studyplace

You also want an ePaper? Increase the reach of your titles

Delete template?

Save as template?