Plato's masterwork — a dialogue in which Socrates and interlocutors investigate the nature of justice, concluding that justice in the city (philosopher-kings ruling warriors and producers) mirrors justice in the soul (reason ruling spirit and appetite) — while developing the theory of Forms, the allegory of the Cave, and the ideal city.
Creates the model for philosophical politics — philosopher-kings rule because they know the Form of the Good, which ordinary people cannot perceive — while the allegory of the Cave makes philosophy's task the liberation of consciousness from opinion to knowledge, from the shadows to the sun.
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