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A guide to Plato's Republic
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- Creator
- Daryl H. Rice
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- New York : Oxford University Press, 1998
- Physical Details
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- xv, 142 pages ; 22 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780195112832, 0195112830, 9780195112849, 0195112849
- OCLC
- ocm35627652
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 131-134) and index.
- 1. Philosophy and Ordinary Life: Book I. Plato's Dialogical Style. The Sociology of Knowledge and Questioning Authority. Appearance and Reality and Questioning Common Sense. Normative Philosophy Versus Empirical Inquiry. Absolute Philosophy Versus Relative Convention. The Normative/Empirical Distinction in a Moralized Cosmos. Plato's Dialogical Style Reconsidered. Some Initial Reservations -- 2. Politics and the Ideal City: Books II-V. Plato Versus Hobbes on Justice and Happiness. The Construction and Rationale of the Ideal City. Art and Censorship. The Living Conditions of the Guardians. Useful Falsehoods. Force in the City and the Soul. Plato Versus Hobbes on Substantive and Instrumental Reason -- 3. Plato's Metaphysics: Books VI-VII. Metaphysics, Ontology, and Epistemology. The Divided Line as an Overview of Plato's Metaphysics. Explaining Plato's Metaphysics on Its Own Terms. The Doctrine of the Forms: Realism Versus Nominalism. Dialectic and the Form of the Good. Problems in Plato's Metaphysics Interpreted on Its Own Terms. Interpreting Plato's Metaphysics from Other Points of View: Acknowledging Finitude -- 4. Plato's Metaphysics and Imperfect Justice: Books VIII-X. The Types of Imperfect Justice. Ranking the Types of Justice. Proofs That the Most Unjust Person Is Unhappiest and the Most Just Person Is Happiest. Critique of the Proofs. The Genesis of Imperfection. Accounts of Imperfection in Subsequent Philosophy and Political Theory. Art Versus Philosophy Revisited and the Myth of Er -- 5. Politics in the Face of Finitude: Review of Book VIII. Aristocracy, Timocracy, Oligarchy, and Tyranny Rejected. Democracy by Default. Another View: Plato as a Proponent of Democracy. Appropriating Plato's Criticism of Democracy. Democracy and Philosophy