Plato's Republic | Book 4 Questions and Answers

Study Questions
1. What four virtues will the ideal state possess?

2. Whose happiness does the ideal state seek?

3. How does the “doctrine of the mean” explain Socrates’ desire to keep the city’s workmen from becoming rich?

4. Why does Socrates not fear his city falling in war?

5. What metaphor describes the well-regulated state as well as the well-ordered mind?

6. What three elements compose the mind?

7. Who is allowed to rule in the ideal state?

8. What class does “appetite” correspond to?

9. What two...


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