Santas The Blackwell Guide to Plato's Republic

1. Auflage 2008
ISBN: 978-1-4051-5025-5
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 320 Seiten, E-Book

Reihe: Blackwell Guides to Great Works

The Blackwell Guide to Plato's Republic consists ofthirteen new essays written by both established scholars andyounger researchers with the specific aim of helping readers tounderstand Plato's masterwork.
* * This guide to Plato's Republic is designed to helpreaders understand this foundational work of the Westerncanon.
* Sheds new light on many central features and themes of theRepublic.
* Covers the literary and philosophical style of theRepublic; Plato's theories of justice and knowledge;his educational theories; and his treatment of the divine.
* Will be of interest to readers who are new to theRepublic, and those who already have some familiarity withthe book.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Santas, Gerasimos

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Notes on Contributors vii
Editor's Introduction 1
1 The Literary and Philosophical Style of the Republic 7
Christopher Rowe
2 Allegory and Myth in Plato's Republic 25
Jonathan Lear
3 Socrates' Refutation of Thrasymachus 44
Rachel Barney
4 Plato's Challenge: the Case against Justice in Republic II 63
Christopher Shields
5 The Gods and Piety of Plato's Republic 84
Mark L. McPherran
6 Plato on Learning to Love Beauty 104
Gabriel Richardson Lear
7 Methods of Reasoning about Justice in Plato's Republic 125
Gerasimos Santas
8 The Analysis of the Soul in Plato's Republic 146
Hendrik Lorenz
9 The Divided Soul and the Desire for Good in Plato's Republic 166
Mariana Anagnostopoulos
10 Plato and the Ship of State 189
David Keyt
11 Knowledge, Recollection, and the Forms in Republic VII 214
Michael T. Ferejohn
12 The Forms in the Republic 234
Terry Penner
13 Plato's Defense of Justice in the Republic 263
Rachel G. K. Singpurwalla
General Bibliography 283
Index 285

Über Autor(innen)

Gerasimos Santas is Professor of Philosophy at the University of California, Irvine. His previous publications include Socrates (1979), Plato and Freud: Two Theories of Love (Blackwell, 1988), and Goodness and Justice: Plato, Aristotle and the Moderns (Blackwell, 2001).