The Republic Book 1

Book one of the Republic begins with Socrates and Glaucon coming back from a festival. While coming back, they run Polemarchus and his friends and decide to o talk with him at his house. All discussions of Justice aside, I think that Plato is trying to make a statement via how the discussion transpires. Plato is trying to show that philosophizing is something that should happen naturally in everyday life and is not something that has to be forced. I found this interesting because I think that a commonly held view among a lot of people is that philosophy is meant for wizened old professors in ivory towers. Plato, in all of his dialogues not just the Republic, seems to go out of his way to disprove this theory. He always has Socrates in a more natural element and I think its something worth pointing out.