Plato's Republic

Plato's Republic | Book 10 Questions and Answers

Study Questions
1. To what two things do the number of spheres correspond?

2. Why might a just man suffer?

3. Why is the creation of an artisan closer to truth than the creation of an artist?

4. How does poetry weaken the mind?

5. Why does the first soul to choose its next incarnation in the Myth of Er make a bad decision?

6. In what way are the goals of the dramatist and the rhetor–itician similar?

7. Who are Lachesis, Clotho, and Atropos?

8. Why is Odysseus’ choice wise?

9. In what two things does Socrates find proof of the soul’s immortality?...

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