Plato's \"The Republic\" \ - Introduction
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The Republic Introduction, written by Plato, the Republic of Plato is the longest of his works, with the exception of the laws, and it's certainly the greatest of them. There are nearer approaches to modern metaphysics in the syllabus and in the softest. The politicus or statesman is more ideal. The form and institutions of the state are marked clearly drawn out in the laws as works of art. The symposium and the protagonists are of higher excellence, but no other dialogues. Plato has the same largeness of you and the same perfection of style. No other shows an equal knowledge of the world or contains mawr of those thoughts which are new as well as old and not one of age only, but of all nowhere in Plato is there a deeper irony or a greater wealth of humor or imagery are more dramatic power, Nor in any other of his writings is the attempt made to interweave life and speculation or to connect politics with philosophy. The republic is the centre around which the other dialogues may be grouped. Here, philosophy reaches the highest point, which ancient thinkers ever attained Plato among the Greeks like bacon among the moderns was the first who conceived a method of knowledge, although neither of them distinguished the bare outline or form of the substance of truth. And both of them had to be content with an abstraction of science, which was not yet realized. He was the greatest metaphysical genius whom the world has seen, and in him more than any other ancient thinker, the germs of future knowledge are contained. The sciences of logic and psychology, which have supplied so many instruments of thought to after ages, are based upon the analyses of Socrates and Plato the end.