La República
- Idioma:
- anglès
- Completesa:
- Obra completa
- Autoria:
- Escrita per l'autor
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- Sense soroll d'escaneig detectat (mesura automàtica sobre tot el text, no revisada a mà)
- Extensió:
- ~110.000 paraules · 543 passatges
Cita aquesta obra
- APAPlató. (n.d.). The Republic [La República]. Digital reproduction: SigPhi. https://sigphiai.com/ca/works/plato/the-republic
- MLAPlató. The Republic [La República]. Digital reproduction, SigPhi, https://sigphiai.com/ca/works/plato/the-republic.
- ChicagoPlató. The Republic [La República]. Digital reproduction, SigPhi. https://sigphiai.com/ca/works/plato/the-republic.
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De què tracta
Un diàleg sobre què és la justícia que acaba dissenyant una ciutat sencera per poder-la mirar en gran, i que pel camí exposa la teoria de les idees, el mite de la caverna i un programa d'educació.
Context i història
Escrit cap al 375 aC, a l'Atenes derrotada a la guerra del Peloponès i uns vint-i-cinc anys després que la ciutat condemnés Sòcrates a mort. Aquella execució plana sobre tot el llibre: la desconfiança de Plató envers la democràcia hi neix. És l'obra que ha fixat el vocabulari de la filosofia política occidental durant vint-i-quatre segles, i també la més discutida: cada generació hi ha llegit una utopia o un avís, segons què li convenia.
Context editorial, no una font citable: a diferència dels passatges de l'obra, aquestes dades no es poden contrastar amb el corpus.
Listen, then, he said; I proclaim that justice is nothing else than the interest of the stronger. And now why do you not praise me? But of course you won’t. Let me first understand you, I replied. Justice, as you say, is the interest of the stronger. What, Thrasymachus, is the meaning of this? You cannot mean to say that because Polydamas, the pancratiast, is stronger than we are, and finds the eating of beef conducive to his bodily strength, that to eat beef is therefore equally for our good who are weaker than he is, and right and just for us? That’s abominable of you, Socrates; you take the words in the sense which is most damaging to the argument. Not at all, my good sir, I said; I am trying to understand them; and I wish that you would be a little clearer. Well, he said, have you never heard that forms of government differ; there are tyrannies, and there are democracies, and there are aristocracies? Yes, I know. And the government is the ruling power in each state? Certainly. And the different forms of government make laws democratical, aristocratical, tyrannical, with a view to their several interests; and these laws, which are made by them for their own interests, are the justice which they deliver to their subjects, and him who transgresses them they punish as a breaker of the law, and unjust. And that is what I mean when I say that in all states there is the same principle of justice, which is the interest of the government; and as the government must be supposed to have power, the only reasonable conclusion is, that everywhere there is one principle of justice, which is the interest of the stronger. Now I understand you, I said; and whether you are right or not I will try to discover. But let me remark, that in defining justice you have yourself used the word ‘interest’ which you forbade me to use.…