Republic of Plato | Plato

The Republic of Plato by Plato ... one of the most valuable foundational books for political thought; "The Republic" in which justice is achieved as "Plato" envisioned before Christ about four decades. The book translated by Hanna Khabbaz into Arabic is a philosophical political dialogue, through which Plato presents his vision of the ideal state or the Socratic utopian city; Socrates is the main interlocutor, and around him are several characters who debate with him and argue with him, and as the debate intensifies, the features of Plato's imagined republic are determined. In Plato's Republic, each individual in society belongs to a specific class, works in a specific field, and there is a balance between the three powers that make up society: the rational power, the spirited power, and the appetitive power. While attempting to define the just ruler and contrasting him with the tyrannical ruler, he divides governments into four types: aristocracy, oligarchy, democracy, and dictatorship. On one hand, he declares his inclination towards constitutional monarchy, and on the other hand, he admits that absolute justice remains elusive.