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Plato’s ’Republic’: A Critical Guide

✍ Scribed by Mark L. McPherran (editor)

Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
2010
Tongue
English
Leaves
288
Series
Cambridge Critical Guides
Edition
1
Category
Library
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✦ Synopsis

Plato's Republic has proven to be of astounding influence and importance. Justly celebrated as Plato's central text, it brings together all of his prior works, unifying them into a comprehensive vision that is at once theological, philosophical, political, and moral. These essays provide a state-of-the-art research picture of the most interesting aspects of the Republic, and address questions that continue to puzzle and provoke, such as: Does Plato succeed in his argument that the life of justice is the most attractive one? Is his tripartite analysis of the soul coherent and plausible? Why does Plato seem to have to force his philosopher-guardians to rule when they know this is something that they ought to do? What is the point of the strange and complicated closing Myth of Er? This volume will be essential to those looking for thoughtful and detailed excursions into the problems posed by Plato's text and ideas.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover......Page 1
Frontmatter......Page 2
Contents......Page 8
Acknowledgments......Page 10
List of contributors......Page 11
List of abbreviations......Page 14
Introduction......Page 16
1 - Socrates in the Republic......Page 26
2 - Platonic ring-composition and Republic 10......Page 47
3 - The Atlantis story: the Republic and the Timaeus......Page 67
4 - Ethics and politics in Socrates' defense of justice......Page 80
5 - Return to the cave......Page 98
6 - Degenerate regimes in Plato's Republic......Page 118
7 - Virtue, luck, and choice at the end of the Republic......Page 147
8 - Plato's divided soul......Page 162
9 - The meaning of "sapheneia" in Plato's Divided Line......Page 186
10 - Plato's philosophical method in the Republic: the Divided Line (510b--511d)......Page 203
11 - Blindness and reorientation: education and the acquisition of knowledge in the Republic......Page 224
12 - Music all pow'rful......Page 244
Bibliography......Page 264
Index of passages......Page 276
Index of names and subjects......Page 285

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