The Cambridge companion to Plato's Republic

The Cambridge companion to Plato's Republic / edited by G.R.F. Ferrari.

The Cambridge Companion to Plato's "Republic" provides a fresh and comprehensive account of this outstanding work, which remains among the most frequently read works of Greek philosophy, indeed of Classical antiquity in general. The sixteen essays, by authors who represent various aca...

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Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2007.
Series:Cambridge companions to philosophy.
Subjects:
Plato. > Republic.
Platon. > République.
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Table of Contents:
  • Protreptic rhetoric of the Republic / Harvey Yunis
  • Place of the Republic in Plato's political thought / Christopher Rowe
  • Rewriting the poets in Plato's characters / David K. O'Connor
  • Wise guys and smart alecks in Republic 1 and 2 / Roslyn Weiss
  • Justice and virtue : the Republic's inquiry into proper difference / Aryeh Kosman
  • Noble lie / Malcolm Schofield
  • Three-part soul / G.R.F. Ferrari
  • Eros in the Republic / Paul W. Ludwig
  • Utopian character of Plato's ideal city / Donald R. Morrison
  • Philosophy, the forms, and the art of ruling / David Sedley
  • Sun and line : the role of the good / Nicholas Denyer
  • Beginning the "longer way" / Mitchell Miller
  • City-soul analogy / Norbert Blössner
  • Unhappy tyrant and the craft of inner rule / Richard D. Parry
  • What is imitative poetry and why is it bad? / Jessica Moss
  • Life-and-death journey of the soul : interpreting the myth of Er / Stephen Halliwell.

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