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A 6 page paper which provides a critical analysis of 'The Republic' by Plato, but is intended to supplement the text, not be a substitute for the text, specifically consider the opinions of other scholars to determine Plato’s intentions and motivations behind writing 'The Republic.' Bibliography lists 7 sources.
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political ideology, but is a study in dialectic philosophy. Is there a correct viewpoint or are they all essentially valid? Socrates would vigorously question all points of view,
and if he could find a flaw in one of them, it would be immediately discounted. Original scholarly perspectives will be offered to shed new light on Platos intentions
and his motives for writing The Republic. It will be up to the reader to draw his own conclusions as to the validity of the presented arguments. This
is not intended to be a substitute for reading The Republic, but rather a substitute for those who have already read the text. Plato wrote The Republic in the active
first-person narrative style. However, the narrator is not Plato himself, but his philosophical mentor, Socrates. Why? Since the narrator is the ultimate judge in the philosophical arguments
presented in The Republic, perhaps Plato felt that Socrates as the most famous teacher of philosophy in Greece would be perceived by readers as a more authoritative figure on the
subjects of justice and right vs. wrong than one of his students would be. According to doctor of philosophy, L. Anckaert, The Republic is primarily an examination of the
role of rhetoric within the political arena. Therefore, "Rhetoric is the expressed genre of the second grammatical person" (545). In this way, Professor Anckaert opines that Plato is
demonstrating the persuasive power of rhetoric and is subtly enticing the reader to accept his conclusions. When The Republic is examined by scholars, the discussion is usually tailored to Book
I, where the famous conversation takes place among Socrates and his friends as to the meaning of justice. After all arguments are presented, Socrates concludes that justice is inherently
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