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| ISBN: | 9780300129502
0300129505
0300109628
9780300109627
1281730319
9781281730312
9786611730314
6611730311
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| Digital file characteristics: | data file
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| Notes: | "Published with assistance from the Louis Stern Memorial Fund"--Title page verso.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 397-403) and index.
English.
Online resource; title from digital title page (JSTOR platform, viewed November 21, 2016).
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| Summary: | "Treating the Republic as a unity and focusing on the dramatic form as the presentation of the argument, Stanley Rosen contends that one can understand the Republic neither as a straightforward proposal for the best city nor as a cryptic repudiation of the principles upon which Socrates constructs that city. Rosen shows in detail that the Socratic principles, despite their theoretical attractiveness, could not be enacted in actual political associations, and that the attempt to do so leads sooner or later to the replacement of philosophy by ideology and justice by tyranny. There is not resolution of the split between theory and practice, even in theory. Rosen takes up in detail the technical doctrines proposed by Socrates in the Republic and shows how they are calibrated to sustain the demonstration of the instability of politics."--Provided by publisher.
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| Other form: | Print version: Rosen, Stanley, 1929- Plato's Republic. New Haven : Yale University Press, ©2005 9780300109627
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