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Plato: Life, Works and His Place in History! There is a controversy about the date of birth and the majority opinion is he was born in 427 B.C. and died in 347 B.C. in Athens which was involved in the Peloponnesian war (430-404). The war was between Athens and Sparta. Pericles was a great apostle of Athenian democracy which flourished [...]

Plato’s Theories: Theory of Justice, Education and Communism! Justice the Most Important Part of Republic: The concept of justice occupies the most important part of Plato's The Republic. Sabine says: "The theory of the state in The Republic culminates in the conception of justice." He has treated justice as the bond which holds a society together. Hence it is the [...]