Objections to Plato’s “Three Parts of the Soul” Plato’s ‘The Republic’ is perhaps the first and greatest works written about politics ever. This book, which was written more than 24 centuries ago, is very modern in the sense that it still makes people think the way it did in the 4th century B.C., and although the reader may not always agree with what Plato has to say, he does make some points like …showed first 75 words of 914 total…

…showed last 75 words of 914 total…according to Plato) be dominated by both of these feelings. Although I do agree with the comments that Plato has on democracy, and the value he attaches to the truth, I find some of his ideas, like this one, quite hard to grasp. His main ideas may seem faultless at first, but when one thinks about it better he leaves open quite some gaps for which he doesn’t come up with a good solution.