Republic (Plato)

High school (ages 12+)
Philosophy & Big Questions

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Step 1 · Read the article

Open the article and read it at the level above. Then answer the questions below in your own words.

https://smallwhale.org/articles/republic-plato

Write what each word means, using the article.

Do not copy the article. Write two things you learned, the way you would explain them to a friend.

Answers below are taken from the article’s stored facts, so they match what the student read.

1. What is the genre?Philosophical dialogue
2. What is the primary speaker?Socrates, as depicted by Plato
3. What is Plato's Republic about?It is a book that talks about a perfect city and how justice keeps everyone happy and working together.
4. Who leads the conversations in the book?Socrates is the main speaker who asks questions and helps people think about what is right.

Polis: An ancient Greek city-state, serving as the fundamental unit of political and social life.
Epistemology: The branch of philosophy concerned with the theory of knowledge, its nature, and scope.
Metaphysics: The branch of philosophy that deals with the first principles of things, including abstract concepts such as being, knowing, substance, cause, identity, time, and space.
Form of the Good: Plato's ultimate reality, the source of all other Forms and the highest object of knowledge.