रिपब्लिक (प्लेटो)
रिपब्लिक (मूल यूनानी नाम : "Πολιτεία / पॉलीतिया" ) प्लेटो द्वारा ३८० ईसापूर्व के आसपास रचित ग्रन्थ है जिसमें सुकरात की वार्ताएँ वर्णित हैं। इन वार्ताओं में न्याय (δικαιοσύνη), नगर तथा न्यायप्रिय मानव की चर्चा है। यह प्लेटो की सर्वश्रेष्ठ रचना मानी जाती है।
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However, Will and Ariel Durant have opined that Rousseau had a definite political influence on America. According to them:The first sign of [Rousseau's] political influence was in the wave of public sympathy that supported active French aid to the American Revolution. Jefferson derived the Declaration of Independence from Rousseau as well as from Locke and Montesquieu. As ambassador to France (1785–89) he absorbed much from both Voltaire and Rousseau...The success of the American Revolution raised the prestige of Rousseau's philosophy.One of Rousseau's most important American followers was textbook writer Noah Webster (1758–1843), who was influenced by Rousseau's ideas on pedagogy in "Emile" (1762). Webster structured his "Speller" in accord with Rousseau's ideas about the stages of a child's intellectual development.