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Books like Republic

24 books recommended for fans of Republic by Plato, tied together by themes of Utopias, Constitutions, Individual Philosophers, and Ethics & Moral Philosophy.

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Top related books to Republic

Titles selected for shared themes, overlapping readership, and similar literary appeal.

The Republic

Plato

Themes: Utopias • History & Surveys • Ancient & Classical

The Prince

Nicollo Machiavelli

Themes: Constitutions • Ethics & Moral Philosophy • History & Theory

Utopia

Thomas More

Themes: Utopias • Ethics & Moral Philosophy • History & Surveys

Aristotle’s Politics A Critical Guide

Thornton Lockwood

Themes: Ethics & Moral Philosophy • History & Surveys • Ancient & Classical

Socrates Meets Machiavelli The Father of Philosophy Cross-Examines the Author of the Prince

Peter Kreeft

Themes: Ethics & Moral Philosophy • History & Surveys • Ancient & Classical

Classical Buddhism, Neo-Buddhism and the Question of Caste

Pradīpa Gokhale

Themes: Ethics & Moral Philosophy • History & Surveys • Ancient & Classical

The Politics

Aristotle

Themes: History & Surveys • Ancient & Classical • History & Theory

A Discourse on Inequality

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Themes: Ethics & Moral Philosophy • History & Surveys • History & Theory

Meditations

Marcus Aurelius

Themes: Individual Philosophers • Ethics & Moral Philosophy • History & Surveys

#10

Unto This Last and Other Writings

John Ruskin

Themes: Ethics & Moral Philosophy • History & Surveys • History & Theory

#11

Mill’s Utilitarianism Critical Essays

David Lyons

Themes: Individual Philosophers • Ethics & Moral Philosophy • History & Surveys

#12

Hume and the Politics of Enlightenment

Thomas W. Merrill

Themes: Individual Philosophers • Ethics & Moral Philosophy • History & Surveys

#13

On Liberty — John Stuart Mill

JOHN STUART. MILL

Themes: Ethics & Moral Philosophy • History & Surveys • Essays

#14

Against the Ethicists (Adversus Mathematicos XI)

Sextus (Empiricus)

Themes: Ethics & Moral Philosophy • History & Surveys • Ancient & Classical

#15

On the Soul And Other Psychological Works

Aristotle

Themes: Ethics & Moral Philosophy • History & Surveys • Ancient & Classical

#16

Seneca, Epistulae Morales Book 2 A Commentary with Text, Translation, and Introduction

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Themes: Ethics & Moral Philosophy • History & Surveys • Ancient & Classical

#17

Dialogues and Essays

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Themes: Ethics & Moral Philosophy • History & Surveys • Ancient & Classical

#18

Selected Essays

David Hume

Themes: Individual Philosophers • History & Surveys • History & Theory

#19

Lord Kames Selected Writings

Lord Henry Home Kames

Themes: Individual Philosophers • History & Surveys • History & Theory

#20

Groundwork of the Metaphysic of Morals

Immanuel Kant

Themes: Individual Philosophers • Ethics & Moral Philosophy • History & Surveys

#21

Meditations Philosophical Contemplations of a Roman Emperor

Marcus Aurelius

Themes: Individual Philosophers • Ethics & Moral Philosophy • History & Surveys

#22

Engaging with Rousseau

Avi Lifschitz

Themes: Individual Philosophers • History & Surveys • History & Theory

#23

Rome and Rhetoric Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar

Garry Wills

Themes: History & Surveys • Ancient & Classical • History & Theory

#24

Cicero A Political Biography

David L. Stockton

Themes: History & Surveys • Ancient & Classical • History & Theory

The 24 books on this list are tied together by themes of Utopias, Constitutions, Individual Philosophers — the same threads that run through Republic by Plato. Among the authors featured: Plato, Nicollo Machiavelli, Thomas More, Thornton Lockwood, and others.