Plato's Republic : a study /

Plato's Republic : a study /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Rosen, Stanley, 1929-2014, author.
Imprint:	New Haven : Yale University Press, ©2005.
Description:	1 online resource (viii, 423 pages)
Language:	English
Subject:	Plato. -- Republic. Republic (Plato) Electronic books.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11152460

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ISBN:	9780300129502 0300129505 0300109628 9780300109627 1281730319 9781281730312 9786611730314 6611730311
Digital file characteristics:	data file
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).
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.
Other form:	Print version: Rosen, Stanley, 1929- Plato's Republic. New Haven : Yale University Press, ©2005 9780300109627

Table of Contents:

Part 1. Cephalus and Polemarchus ; Thrasymachus ; Glaucon and Adeimantus
part 2. Paideia 1: The luxurious city ; Paideia 2: The purged city ; Justice ; The female drama
part 3. Possibility ; The philosophical nature ; The good, the divided line, and the cave: The education of the philosopher
part 4. Political decay ; Happiness and pleasure ; The quarrel between philosophy and poetry ; The immortal soul.