Anarchy in Utopia: Statelessness in Book II of the Republic?

• In Event: Classical Perspectives

Brief Overview

This paper questions standard linear accounts of Plato’s famous republic by arguing that there are multiple cities that precede it, that one of them is anarchical, and that Socrates is unwilling to leave this condition for one containing a state.

Author

• Simeon Burns, Louisiana State University and Agricultural & Mechanical College