Many political theorists claim that Plato’s Republic is the first real work of Western political theory. While subsequent works of theory may not accept all of Plato’s premises, Republic establishes the basic framework on which the enterprise of political theory depends.
Using evidence both from Plato’s argument in Republic and from at least two of the four theorists we covered in the second half of the semester (Mill, and Marx, DuBois, and Nietzsche), support or refute this claim.
