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Plato is perhaps the most significant philosopher who may have ever lived and The Republic, composed in Athens in about 375 BC, is widely thought to be his most famous dialogue. Its discussion of the perfect city  —  and the perfect mind  — laid the foundations for Western culture and, for over two thousand years, has been the cornerstone of Western philosophy. As the distinguished Cambridge professor Simon Blackburn points out, they have probably sustained more commentary, and been subject to more radical and impassioned disagreement, than almost any other of the fantastic founding texts of today's world. In Plato’s Republic, Blackburn explains the judicial, moral and political ideas in the Republic with dazzling insight and clarity. Blackburn also examines Republic’s exceptional influence and unquestioned stamina, and shows why, from St. Augustine to twentieth century philosophers such as Ludwig Wittgenstein and Henri Bergson, Western thought is still conditioned by this most significant, and contemporary, of books.