Plato's "Republic"

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This paper attempts to analyze Plato's "Republic" by simply answering the questions of whether or not the Republic is a utopia, if it can be brought into existence and whether it is realizable. While focusing on and answering the questions above, this paper also provides the reader with a basic understanding of the concepts and ideas conveyed by Plato in the "Republic".

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" In the Republic, the words "mine," "not mine," "another's," and "not another's" will be applied to the same things throughout the community, for it is words like these that cause a disunion in society (Plato, "The Republic"). "In our community, then, above all others, when things go well or ill with any individual everyone will use that word 'mine' in the same sense and say that all is going well of ill with him and his. And, as we said, this way of thinking and speaking goes with fellow-feeling; so that our citizens, sharing as they do in a common interest in which each will call his own, will have all their feelings of pleasure or pain in common" (Plato, "The Republic"). "

Sample of Sources Used:

• Plato, "The Republic."

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