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The Replublic The Original Unabridged And Complete Edition (Plato Classics)

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The Republic is a Socratic dialogue, authored by Plato around 375 BCE, concerning justice, the order and character of the just city-state, and the just man. It is Plato's best-known work, and one of the world's most influential works of philosophy and political theory, both intellectually and histor...

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The book, "The Republic", was compared to Jeremy Bentham's work on the ideal prison structure, "The Panopticon", as both texts explored ideal structures of governance.

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The same way Plato and the Republic spends a considerable amount of time trying to come up with the ideal structure of government, Jeremy Bentham spends a bunch of time in his work trying to come up w...

— Episode: Episode #121 ... Michel Foucault pt. 1

Episode: Episode #121 ... Michel Foucault pt. 1

The book, "The Republic", was compared to Jeremy Bentham's work on the ideal prison structure, "The Panopticon", as both texts explored ideal structures of governance.

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The same way Plato and the Republic spends a considerable amount of time trying to come up with the ideal structure of government, Jeremy Bentham spends a bunch of time in his work trying to come up with the ideal structure of a prison.

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