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The Republic is perhaps the single most important, the most analyzed and the most quoted words of most of Plato's Socratic Dialogues. From the medium of Socrates, Plato outlines his view and ideas concerning the ideal working of the city-state. Socrates narrates a chat that took place the previous day with Cephalus, Glaucon, Thrasymachus yet others. The dialogue is organised into 10 books and covers a wide range of topics, including the ideal community, the perfect rulers of the community - philosophers and the philosopher king - and different forms of federal, including timocracy, oligarchy, democracy and tyranny. Area of the Ukemi saving of the entire Socratic Dialogues by Plato, it uses the basic translation by Benjamin Jowett and is also read with expert by David Rintoul.