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Durant begins not with a definition, but with a scene: Athens, after the death of Socrates. He humanizes Plato, showing how his Republic was a radical, authoritarian dream for a utopia—what Durant calls "the first philosophical romance." He argues that Plato was not a fascist, as Karl Popper later claimed, but a frustrated aristocrat trying to solve the problem of political decay. Durant’s summary of Plato’s theory of Ideas remains the clearest ever written for laypeople.

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