One: The Approach to Plato; 1: From Oriental to Occidental Society; 2: The Spiritual Revolution; 3: The Great Age of Athenian Democracy; 4: The Conservative Philosophy *; 5: The Progressive Philosophy *; 6: The Life of Plato; Two: The Republic of Plato; 7: The Argument with Thrasymachus— What Is Justice?; 8: The Social Contract Theory of the Origin of the State; 9: The Sociology and Psychology of the Platonic Virtues; 10: The Education of the “Guards”; 11: How the “Guards” Were to Live; 12: The Philosophy of Plato; 13: The Academy and the Later Dialogues