Plato's Republic

Yes, we do not agree with Plato in all of his theories, and we published them on his responsibility, but we are impressedI am more than impressed with his system of thinking, his open-heartedness, his precise control, and his abundance of eloquence and clarification.We share with him the general purpose of writing, which is "happiness," and the specific means leading to that purposeIt is ((virtue)) and hypocritical in that virtue is desired for its own sake and its results. And that the individual is a miniature state and the stateA large body, and that what pleases the state makes the individual happy, and that the perfect man - the ideal - is the one whoHis mind controlled his desires, his enthusiasm led to his wisdom, and he lived and died in the service of the whole.