Plato's Political Philosophy
The aim of the book is to introduce the reader to Plato's political philosophy. The book is directed towards an audience that approaches Plato for the first time.In Plato politics cannot be dissociated from ethics, metaphysics and epistemology. One cannot fully appreciate Plato's 'ideal state' without understanding Plato's Theory of Forms and his conception of the soul. For this reason the purpose of the book is to place Plato's political philosophy within Plato's philosophy as a whole.The