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PLA<strong>TO</strong>'S POLITICAL <strong>THE</strong>ORY 85<br />

an undue partiality for Pl<strong>at</strong>o has confessed: "I still find<br />

the Republic the gre<strong>at</strong>est book on political philosophy which<br />

I have read. The more I read it, the more I h<strong>at</strong>e it; and<br />

yet I cannot help returning to it time after time/*1<br />

Of very few of the political and ethical tre<strong>at</strong>ises with<br />

which we shall subsequently be concerned can the same<br />

be said.<br />

<strong>Books</strong><br />

XThe Republic of Pl<strong>at</strong>o. <strong>Books</strong> H-V and <strong>Books</strong> VIII and IX<br />

(for editions of the Republic see Bibliography to Chapter I,<br />

page 41).<br />

NETTLESHI*, R. L. 'Lectures on the Republic of Pl<strong>at</strong>o, Chapter*<br />

V VIII.<br />

BARKER, Ernest. The Political Thought of Pl<strong>at</strong>o and Aristotle.<br />

GRUBE, G. M. A. Pl<strong>at</strong>o's Thought, Chapters VII and VIII.<br />

R. H. S. Grossman's, Pl<strong>at</strong>o To-day, contains a good account<br />

and criticism of Pl<strong>at</strong>o's political theory from the standpoint of<br />

modern democr<strong>at</strong>ic thought.<br />

vLowBs DICKINSON, G. After Two Thousand Years, a dialogue<br />

in the Pl<strong>at</strong>onic manner in which Pl<strong>at</strong>o, returned from the<br />

Shades, surveys and discusses the political problems of the<br />

contemporary world.<br />

1 Quoted from Mr. R. H. S. Grossman's book, Pl<strong>at</strong>o

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