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The Republic

01Book VII is a recapitulation of the divisions of knowledge in Book VI. The
02BOOK I. The Republic opens with a truly Greek scene--a festival in honourMembers only
03BOOK II. Thrasymachus is pacified, *357* but the intrepid Glaucon insistsMembers only
04BOOK III. *386* There is another motive in purifying religion, which is toMembers only
05BOOK IV. *419* Adeimantus said: 'Suppose a person to argue, Socrates, thatMembers only
06part in the individual soul; reason, the superior, and passion, theMembers only
07BOOK V. *449* I was going to enumerate the four forms of vice or declineMembers only
08BOOK VI. *484* Having determined that the many have no knowledge of trueMembers only
09BOOK VII. *514* And now I will describe in a figure the enlightenment orMembers only
10BOOK VIII. *543* And so we have arrived at the conclusion, that in theMembers only
11Book ix; the hint to the poets that if they are the friends of tyrantsMembers only
12BOOK IX. *571* Last of all comes the tyrannical man, about whom we have toMembers only
13BOOK X. *595* Many things pleased me in the order of our State, but thereMembers only
14book is not really what to most persons the title of it would imply, andMembers only
15BOOK IMembers only
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22part in her government.]Members only
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24BOOK IX.Members only
25BOOK X.Members only

BOOK VII. 514 And now I will describe in a figure the enlightenment or

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