Plato's Beautiful City and the Essence of Politics

In Plato's political theory we discover the essence of politics, which provides the requisite lessons to understand political as it is and should be. As there is a Form of the Good, there is a Form of the Polis, discerned in Plato's philosophy and as real for us as it was for him.

Scott John Hammond

Chapter One Drawing Further Meaning from Cephalus and Polemarchus Chapter Two Making Thrasymachus Blush Chapter Three Sons of Ariston Chapter Four The True City Chapter Five The True City Embodied in the Guardians Chapter Six Rough Seas Chapter Seven Building a Theory from an Account Chapter Eight The Second Best City Chapter Nine The Form of the Polis in the Second Best City: The Visible Chapter Ten The Form of the Polis in the Second Best City: The Invisible