Plato's 'Republic' An Introduction

This book is a lucid and accessible companion to Plato’s Republic, throwing light upon the text’s arguments and main themes, placing them in the wider context of the text’s structure. In its illumination of the philosophical ideas underpinning the work, it provides readers with an understanding and...

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Main Author: McAleer, Sean (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: [Place of publication not identified] Open Book Publishers [2020]
Series:Open textbook library.
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Table of Contents:
  • 1. Fathers and Sons
  • 2. Taming the Beast: Socrates versus Thrasymachus
  • 3. A Fresh Start
  • 4. Blueprints for a Platonic Utopia: Education and Culture
  • 5. Starting to Answer the First Question: The Political Virtues
  • 6. The Republic’s First Question Answered at Last: Personal Justice
  • 7. Questions about the Idea Polis: The Three Waves
  • 8. Surfing the Third Wave: Plato’s Metaphysical Elevator, the Powers Argument, and the Infallibility of Knowledge
  • 9. The Philosopher’s Virtues
  • 10. Metaphors to Think by: The Sun and Divided Line Analogies
  • 11. The Allegory of the Cave
  • 12. The Decline and Fall of the Ideal City-Soul
  • 13. The Republic’s Second Question Answered: Three and a Half Arguments that the Just Life is Happier
  • 14. Are We There Yet? Tying up Loose Ends in Book X