The Republic of Plato / translated with introduction and notes by Francis MacDonald Cornford
1955, First Edition, Eighth Printing. Oxford : Clarendon Press. Near fine cloth copy in a very good if slightly creased, edge-bumped and dust-dulled dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Faint foxing to front prelims. Remains well-preserved overall. Item #448975
Physical description; xxvii, 356 pages ; 20cm. Notes; Translated from the Greek. Contents; I. Some current views of justice -- II. Justice in the state and in the individual -- III. The philosopher king -- IV. The decline of society and of the soul: comparison of the just and unjust lives -- V. The quarrel between philosophy and poetry -- VI. Immortality and the rewards of justice. Subjects; Political science Philosophy. Justice Philosophy. Utopias. Ideal states. Greek philosophy. Classical philosophy.
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