  This article attempts to provide a constructive guide to the main  issues of ethics and politics in the Republic. Two  assumptions shape its organization. First, it assumes that an account of ethics and politics in the Republic requires a  preliminary understanding of the question Socrates is facing and the  strategy Socrates uses to answer the question. Second, it assumes  that politics in the Republic is based upon the moral  psychology in the Republic, and thus that the former is more profitably discussed after the latter. With these assumptions in  place, the following outline unfolds: