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| Preface and background to the Republic | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Principal Dates | |
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| Current Opinions of Justice Refuted (Book 1) | |
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| Introductory Dialogue (Socrates and Cephalus, 328c-331d) | |
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| First Definition (Cephalus, 331a-d) | |
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| Refutation (332c-335d) | |
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| Third Definition (Thrasymachus, 338c-343a) | |
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| Refutation (339b-e) | |
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| Redefinition of Ruler (340d-341a) | |
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| Refutation (341c-343a) | |
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| New Argument (343a-348a) | |
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| Refutations of (a): i) 345b-348a) | |
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| Refutation of (b), 352d-354a | |
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| Conclusion (354a-c) | |
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| Justice Reexamined, in the State and in the Individual (Books 2-4) | |
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| Adeimantus (362d-367e) | |
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| The Problem Examined and Solved (368c-445e) | |
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| Second State of the State (372d-427c) | |
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| Elementary Education of the guardians (376c-415d) | |
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| Gymnastics (physical education), 403c-412b | |
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| Instilling and testing patriotism and leadership, 412c-415d | |
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| Living arrangements of guardians and auxiliaries (415d-427c) | |
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| Conclusion (427c-434d) | |
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| Wisdom = the knowledge of the guardians (428a-429a) | |
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| Courage = the auxiliaries’ opinion of “what is and is not to be feared” (429a-30c) | |
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| Temperance = agreement of all three classes about who should rule and be ruled (430d-432b) | |
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| Justice = each of the three classes “tending its own business” and not preempting the work of another (432b-434d) | |
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| Composition of the Soul (434d-441c) | |
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| Conclusion (441d-444e) | |
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| Degeneration Regimes and Souls, Interrupted (445b-449a) | |
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| Digression: The Best Regime and Men (Books 5-7) | |
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| Organization of the Best Regime (451c-461e) | |
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| Women and children will not be private possessions but common to all of the men. Marriage arrangements, eugenics (457c-461e) | |
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| The Superiority and Possibility of Such a City (462a-473e) | |
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| Excursus: regulations for warfare (466e-471c) | |
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| Such a city is not impossible (471e-473c) | |
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| Reminder that the best state is only a model, not completely realizable in practice (472b-473b). It is possible only if philosophers become kings or kings philosophers (473c-3), | |
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| The Best Men: Philosopher Kings (Guardians), Book 5, 474b-Book 7 | |
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| The Philosophic Nature (485a-503e) | |
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| Higher Education of the Guardians (504a-535a) | |
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| The Simple of the Sun (506e-509b) | |
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| The Simile of the Divided Line (509d-511e) | |
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| The Simile of the Cave (514a-521b) | |
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| Curriculum (521c-535a) | |
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| Plane geometry, 526c-527c | |
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| Harmonics, 530d-531c | |
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| Selection of the Guardians (535a-540c) | |
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| Brief Excursus (540d-541b) | |
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| Degenerate Regimes and Souls, Resumed From Book 5 (Books 8 and 9) | |
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| Cause of Change or Decline in a State: Civil War (545c-547c) | |
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| Degenerate Regimes and Men, Described and Compared (547c-592b) | |
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| Oilgarchy (rule of the wealthy few) and the oligarchic man (550c-555b) | |
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| Democracy (rule of the people) and the democratic man (555b-562a) | |
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| Tyranny (dictatorship) and the tyrannical man (562a-580a) | |
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| The five types are judged for their goodness and happiness and ranked in the order in which they were presented: Aristocracy and the aristocratic man are the best and happiness; tyranny and the tyrant are the worst and most miserable (580a-588a) | |
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| Conclusion: The aristocrat is just, the tyrant unjust. Therefore justice makes a man happy, injustice makes him unhappy (588b-592b) | |
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| Denunciation of Imitative Poetry (Book 10, 595a-608b) | |
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| Imitative poetry appeals to the emotions rather than to the mind (602c-605c) | |
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| Imitative poetry deforms character (605c-608b) | |
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| Immortality and the Rewards of Justice (608b-End) | |
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| Rewards of Justice and Punishments of Injustice in This Life (612b-614a) | |
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| Rewards and Punishments After Death (614a-621d) | |
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| Appendix: The Spindle of Necessity | |
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| Bibliography | |