{"id":775,"date":"2025-02-27T03:01:22","date_gmt":"2025-02-27T03:01:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fmidnight.com\/mediabox\/?p=775"},"modified":"2025-06-19T08:40:20","modified_gmt":"2025-06-19T08:40:20","slug":"the-republic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fmidnight.com\/mediabox\/the-republic\/","title":{"rendered":"The Republic"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-28f84493 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\"><table class=\"has-fixed-layout\"><tbody><tr><td>Title<\/td><td>The Republic<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Author<\/td><td><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fmidnight.com\/mediabox\/plato\/\">Plato<\/a><\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Series<\/td><td>NA<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Ranking<\/td><td>\u2b50\u2b50\u2b50\u2b50\u2b50\u2b50\u2b50\u2b50\u2b50\u2b50<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Genre<\/td><td>Fantasy<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Links<\/td><td><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/30289.The_Republic?from_search=true&amp;from_srp=true&amp;qid=3W5tHMYHIZ&amp;rank=4\">Goodreads<\/a><\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Presented in the form of a dialogue between Socrates and three different interlocutors, this classic text is an inquiry into the notion of a perfect community and the ideal individual within it. During the conversation, other questions are raised: what is goodness?; what is reality?; and what is knowledge? The Republic also addresses the purpose of education and the role of both women and men as guardians of the people. With remarkable lucidity and deft use of allegory, Plato arrives at a depiction of a state bound by harmony and ruled by philosopher kings.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"474\" height=\"713\" src=\"https:\/\/www.fmidnight.com\/mediabox\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/republic.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-248\" style=\"width:363px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.fmidnight.com\/mediabox\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/republic.jpg 474w, https:\/\/www.fmidnight.com\/mediabox\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/republic-199x300.jpg 199w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 474px) 100vw, 474px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-video\"><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Title The Republic Author Plato Series NA Ranking \u2b50\u2b50\u2b50\u2b50\u2b50\u2b50\u2b50\u2b50\u2b50\u2b50 Genre Fantasy Links Goodreads Presented in the form of a dialogue between Socrates and three different interlocutors, this classic text is an inquiry into the notion of a perfect community and the ideal individual within it. During the conversation, other questions are raised: what is goodness?; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":248,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pgc_sgb_lightbox_settings":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[465],"tags":[480],"class_list":["post-775","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-books","tag-philosophy"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fmidnight.com\/mediabox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/775","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fmidnight.com\/mediabox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fmidnight.com\/mediabox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fmidnight.com\/mediabox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fmidnight.com\/mediabox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=775"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.fmidnight.com\/mediabox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/775\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3393,"href":"https:\/\/www.fmidnight.com\/mediabox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/775\/revisions\/3393"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fmidnight.com\/mediabox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/248"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fmidnight.com\/mediabox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fmidnight.com\/mediabox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fmidnight.com\/mediabox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}