What
are the virtues of the state? To which groups in the state do
they
correspond? What are the parts of the soul? To which groups
in the
state do they correspond? What is the relationship between the
soul and
the state? Which comes first in Plato’s mind? What is Socrates’s definition of justice? Does
Book 4 with
its definition of Platonic justice answer Thrasymachus’s
challenge? Glaucon’s question?
What
is the purpose of the community of wives and children? Does the
community
of wives and children necessarily imply that women should be
guardians?
Is Plato a feminist? Does Plato think that these proposals are
feasible?
What
distinguishes philosophers from other people? Why should they
rule?
How does having knowledge differ from being right? What are
“forms”?
What conception of the good is presented in the Sun, Line, and
Cave? What
is dialectic? Why all this math? How does the
education of
the philosopher-kings depicted in these books compare to the earlier
discussion
of education (books II and III)?