Jacob Howland on Plato’s Republic

A Link to My Review & a Few Howland Quotes

We are probably obliged to say that Plato’s Republic is the greatest of the Great Books, or at least, the work that most sets our expectations of what such a book should be.  To agree with that statement is not to say that you’re not liberally educated if you haven’t studied it, nor that a person who nourishes herself more on a book like Aquinas’s Summa…