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A Guide to Plato's Republic.(Review)

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From: Utopian Studies
Date: 19980322
Author:Smith, Nicholas D.

Daryl H. Rice. A Guide to Plato's Republic.

NY: Oxford UP, 1998. xv + 142 pp. $11.95.

This little book is intended as an aid to first-time readers of Plato's Republic, with special emphasis on helping such readers compare and contrast Plato's political thought to that of a few later political philosophers, and to show the strengths and weaknesses of Plato's reasoning with regard to how Rice expects novice readers will react to their first experience with Plato.

The book is divided into five chapters, the first four of which roughly follow and explore Plato's ...

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