Responds to it
The Nicomachean Ethics rejects the Republic's Form of the Good: a single universal Good could not be what practical wisdom aims at.
Nicomachean Ethics I.6, 1096a11–1097a14
Responds to it
The Poetics answers the Republic's charge against poetry: imitation is natural to us and a source of learning, and tragedy's catharsis is good rather than corrupting.
Poetics 4, 1448b4–19; 6, 1449b24–28; cf. Republic X, 595a–608b
Responds to it
Aristotle's Politics criticizes the Republic's community of wives, children and property, arguing that it would weaken the city rather than unify it.
Politics II.1–5, 1260b27–1264b25
Built on it
The Virtuous City recasts the Republic's ideal city, with a philosopher-prophet as its ruler in place of the philosopher-king.
Principles of the Opinions of the People of the Virtuous City, chs. 15–19
Built on it
Utopia's Hythloday invokes the Republic's common ownership of property, and his island commonwealth puts it into practice.
Utopia I; II, 'Of their living and mutual conversation'
Built on it
The third book of The World as Will and Representation makes Plato's Ideas, as in the Republic, the objects art presents.
WWR I, §§30–32
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Democracy and Education examines the Republic's education of classes by nature, and criticizes it for fixing individuals in their station.
Democracy and Education, ch. 7
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The Principles of Art argues that the Republic's attack on poetry was aimed at amusement and magic in art, not at art proper.
Principles of Art, Book I
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The first volume of The Open Society and Its Enemies attacks the Republic's ideal state as a blueprint for totalitarianism.
Open Society, vol. I, chs. 6–10
Built on it
Natural Right and History sets the classical natural right that begins with Plato's Republic against modern natural right, which it finds ending in relativism.
Natural Right and History, ch. IV
Responds to it
'The Artworld' starts from the Republic's picture of art as a mirror held up to things, and argues that no theory of imitation can say why some things are art.
'The Artworld', opening · Unverified
Built on it
The Sovereignty of Good takes the Republic's Good, the sun in the allegory of the cave, as the model for moral attention.
Sovereignty of Good, 'The Sovereignty of Good over Other Concepts'
Responds to it
Speculum of the Other Woman ends with 'Plato's Hystera', a reading of the Republic's cave as a womb the philosopher denies.
Speculum, 'Plato's Hystera' · Unverified
Built on it
Sources of the Self begins its history of the self with the Republic's ideal of self-mastery, the rule of reason in the soul, which Augustine would turn inward.
Sources of the Self, ch. 6