An Overview Outline of Plato’s Republic

An Overview Outline of Plato’s Republic

1. What is Justice?

1.1. Book 1

1.1.1. Introduction (Can you persuade us if we do not listen?)

1.1.2. Three views of justice

1.1.2.1. Cephalus

1.1.2.2. Polemarchus

1.1.2.3. Thrasymchus

1.1.2.4. The refutation of Thrasymachus by Socrates

1.2. Book 2

1.2.1. The challenges of Glaucon and Adeimantus

1.2.1.1. Challenge of Glaucon

1.2.1.2. Challenge of Adeimantus

1.2.2. The Response of Socrates that justice is in itself more valuable than injustice.

1.2.2.1. Proposing the model of the city

1.2.2.2. Forming the city

1.3. Book 3 Educating the citizens of the city

1.3.1. Educating the guardians

1.3.2. Uniting the city (with the myth of the metals or the noble lie).

1.4. Book 4: Justice in the city and its inhabitants

1.4.1. Virtues and the roles of inhabitants: How justice works in the city

1.4.2. Based on that model, how justice works in the soul