Assignment task: Based on the following text: Shabani and Deveaux, Introduction to Social and Political Philosophy (Oxford: 2014) answer the following questions clearly and with detail.
Q1. What is the point of socrates controversial discussion of gold, silver and bronze types of person in Book three?
Q2. What definition of justice emerges in Book four of the Republic?
Q3. How are women guardians to be trained in the hypothetical republic (Book five) and are these different expectations of them?
Q4. In what sense is knowledge a journey and how does the dialogic style of the republic illustrate this?
Q5. What is the allegory of the cave, in Book seven and what purpose does it serve?