Author: Lewis Campbell

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2015-06-15

Total Pages: 208

ISBN-13: 9781330314104

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Excerpt from Plato's Republic When asked by Mr Magnus, the editor of this series, to write a little book on Plato's Republic, I was not disinclined from the task, but feared that the ground was already too much occupied. Not only Professor Jowett's monumental work, which may be beyond the reach of some readers, but Davies and Vaughan's translation, Mr Bosanquet's notes, the manual of the Dean of Christchurch, and the late R. L. Nettleship's able essay in Hellenica, seemed to supply all that was needed, whether for the student or the general reader. But I could not set my opinion against my publisher's, and I was encouraged to hope that I might still be able to say something worth printing on a subject which has been more or less familiar to me for fifty years. Since the greater part of the present volume was written, Mr Nettleship's lectures on the Republic have been posthumously issued. I was glad to find in them many of my own thoughts anticipated, and to recognise much else as valuable and striking. But as these lectures were delivered to classical students in the University of Oxford, their aim is in some ways different from that to which this smaller work has been directed. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Download or read book Plato's Republic written by Lewis Campbell and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-06-15 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Plato's Republic When asked by Mr Magnus, the editor of this series, to write a little book on Plato's Republic, I was not disinclined from the task, but feared that the ground was already too much occupied. Not only Professor Jowett's monumental work, which may be beyond the reach of some readers, but Davies and Vaughan's translation, Mr Bosanquet's notes, the manual of the Dean of Christchurch, and the late R. L. Nettleship's able essay in Hellenica, seemed to supply all that was needed, whether for the student or the general reader. But I could not set my opinion against my publisher's, and I was encouraged to hope that I might still be able to say something worth printing on a subject which has been more or less familiar to me for fifty years. Since the greater part of the present volume was written, Mr Nettleship's lectures on the Republic have been posthumously issued. I was glad to find in them many of my own thoughts anticipated, and to recognise much else as valuable and striking. But as these lectures were delivered to classical students in the University of Oxford, their aim is in some ways different from that to which this smaller work has been directed. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.