Plato's 'Republic' : a Critical Guide.
These new essays provide a state-of-the-art research picture of the most interesting, puzzling, and provoking aspects of Plato's Republic.
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| Language: | English |
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Leiden :
Cambridge University Press,
2010
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| Series: | Cambridge critical guides.
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| Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |
Table of Contents:
- Cover; Half-title; Series-title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; Contributors; Abbreviations; Introduction; Chapter 1 Socrates in the Republic; Chapter 2 Platonic ring-composition and Republic 10; Chapter 3 The Atlantis story: the Republic and the Timaeus; Chapter 4 Ethics and politics in Socrates' defense of justice; Chapter 5 Return to the cave; Chapter 6 Degenerate regimes in Plato's Republic; Chapter 7 Virtue, luck, and choice at the end of the Republic; Chapter 8 Plato's divided soul; Chapter 9 The meaning of "sapheneia" in Plato's Divided Line.
- Chapter 10 Plato's philosophical method in the Republic: the Divided Line (510b-511d)Chapter 11 Blindness and reorientation: education and the acquisition of knowledge in the Republic; Chapter 12 Music all pow'rful; Bibliography; Index of passages; Index of names and subjects.
