The famous dialogue "on justice," the plan for organizing the ideal community of justice and education, the exposition of the philosopher's political and moral principles. Books I, II. Introduction to the dialogue, examination of the concept of justice according to the prevailing views of the time. The creation of the state. Plato was born in 427 BC, a descendant of a prominent Athenian family. He received a great education and became acquainted with Greek philosophical currents. However, what decisively shaped his moral and spiritual stature was Socrates, with his life, philosophy, and death. The great philosopher was the reason the young Plato turned to philosophy, and Socratic conceptualization became the basis for the creation of the subsequent Platonic theory of Ideas. Plato profoundly interpreted Socrates as a person and teacher and captured his personality in many of his works. He traveled to Egypt, Cyrene, and Greater Greece, where he unsuccessfully attempted to apply his political principles to the organization of the Greek cities of Sicily. In 387 BC, he founded the Academy in Athens, a famous center of philosophy and the Muses, which lasted almost ten centuries, until the time of Justinian. Plato devoted himself to teaching and writing until his death (348 BC). All his works, which have survived, were classified by Thrasyllus into nine tetralogies. Almost all belong to the genre of dialogue, with which Plato emerged, apart from being a leading philosopher, as a true poet. His teachings stem from the doctrines of Greek thought, Orphism, Pythagorean and Ionic philosophy, and of course the Socratic discourse, and are ultimately shaped, as Plato's personal creation, into a colossal philosophical system. His philosophy - ethical, ontological, political - is the foundation of global Idealism and perhaps influenced the thought of all ages more than anyone else. [Excerpt from publisher or edition presentation text]