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(5 pp) An analogy" according to Mr. Webster, is an
inference that if two or more things agree in some
respects they will probably agree in others - a
likeness between things that are unlike. In this
discussion we will determine the analogies that Plato used in the Republic and Rousseau in The Social Contract.
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The Social Contract. BBplaRuR.doc PLATO and ROUSSEAU: Related by Analogy. Written by B. Bryan Babcock for the Paperstore, Inc., November 2000 Introduction An analogy" according to
Mr. Webster, is an inference that if two or more things agree in some respects they will probably agree in others - a likeness between things that are unlike.
In this discussion we will determine the analogies that Plato used in the Republic and Rousseau in The Social Contract. The Republic - Plato Plato usually wrote relatively short pieces.
In all his writings there are only two book length works, the Republic and the Laws. The Laws was the last thing Plato wrote, at eighty, and it is a
grim and terrifying culmination of the totalitarian tendencies in his earlier political thought. It is also pretty dull, since Plato had all but abandoned his earlier lively dialogue format. The
Republic, however, is the supreme product of Platos most mature years, thought, and style. It contains virtually the entire universe of Platos philosophy. The word "republic" is from Latin: Res
publica means "public matters" or "the state." In Greek, the title was the Politeia, which means the Constitution. But the Republic does not start out about politics. It is initially
a familiar kind of Socratic dialogue about justice, just as the Euthyphro is about piety and the Meno is about virtue. The Republic is divided into ten Books. The
entire first Book of the Republic may originally have been one of the standard early dialogues that Plato wrote about Socrates. Later it was expanded. Unusual features of the dialogue,
however, are (1) that Socrates (note that Plato continues to use Socrates to speak Platos ideas in all his mature work) actually narrates the entire thing, (2) that he speaks
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