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Plato's educational thought is embodied in which of his representative works?
Plato's educational thought is embodied in his masterpiece The Republic.

Plato (Plato, π λ α tau? ν, 427-347 BC), was a great philosopher in ancient Greece and one of the greatest philosophers and thinkers in the whole western culture.

Plato is a famous ancient Greek philosopher. He wrote many works and founded a famous college in Athens. He is a student of Socrates and a teacher of Aristotle. The three of them are widely regarded as the founders of western philosophy. Like many ancient documents, Plato's collected works are incomplete and controversial.

Republic:

The Republic is a philosophical dialogue work created by Plato, an ancient Greek philosopher. This book mainly discusses the construction, governance and justice of Plato's ideal country, with the theme of state management. This book covers many fields, such as politics, education, ethics, philosophy and so on. His thoughts are profound and represent almost the whole Greek culture. From 20 15 to 1 1, The Republic was rated as one of the 20 most influential academic books in British Academic Book Week.

The Republic consists of ten volumes. The first and second volumes discuss the issue of justice. Because in Plato's thought, the state is established to achieve fairness and justice, so these two chapters summarize the main idea of the book. The second half of the second volume to the third volume discusses the education of defending the country, which is also the primary education of the rulers.

The fourth volume discusses the effectiveness and leadership of education, and also talks about the significance of temperance, courage, wisdom and justice. The fifth volume discusses preschool education and women's education. The sixth and seventh volumes discuss the cultivation of philosophers, that is, the advanced education of rulers. Volumes 8 and 9 talk about political power. The tenth volume is about art.