Republic

Ia this any good for a politcs brainlet ?

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yes

eh, it's all over the place. The problem with asking this question is that depending on your own political beliefs you will respond with wildly different answers about who actually explains politics properly.

There is no way to reconcile the beliefs of Carlyle and Marx, it is simply impossible, so all you can do is read both and try to understand where they were coming from, which requires a grasp of history.

So you have to read a bunch of history really, before getting to politics.

It's not a book on politics and it's not called the republic

The what is it called?

Πολιτεία, Politeia. The book is indeed a classic of political philosophy, but it spends more time talking about education and the soul.

what is it a book about and what is it called then user?

Thanks user.

The word πολιτεία means the structure, the order, the kόσμος of the πόλις, not the πόλις itself.
Even if the work were called πόλις, it is still, I believe, an untranslatable word, not even as res publica, which already does not grasp the essence of the Greek "community" between men according to friendship and their nature which manifests itself in the πόλις.
So, Politeia is something radically different from the mere "Republic"

And it is, as all Plato's works, not a "book of philosophy", a "philosophical work", but simply his exoteric work, something which is not φιλοσοφία, but a reminder of it, with purpose of παιδαγογία and omen.