Plato’s ’Republic’: A Critical Guide

Cover......Page 1
Frontmatter......Page 2
Contents......Page 8
Acknowledgments......Page 10
List of contributors......Page 11
List of abbreviations......Page 14
Introduction......Page 16
1 - Socrates in the Republic......Page 26
2 - Platonic ring-composition and Republic 10......Page 47
3 - The Atlantis story: the Republic and the Timaeus......Page 67
4 - Ethics and politics in Socrates' defense of justice......Page 80
5 - Return to the cave......Page 98
6 - Degenerate regimes in Plato's Republic......Page 118
7 - Virtue, luck, and choice at the end of the Republic......Page 147
8 - Plato's divided soul......Page 162
9 - The meaning of "sapheneia" in Plato's Divided Line......Page 186
10 - Plato's philosophical method in the Republic: the Divided Line (510b--511d)......Page 203
11 - Blindness and reorientation: education and the acquisition of knowledge in the Republic......Page 224
12 - Music all pow'rful......Page 244
Bibliography......Page 264
Index of passages......Page 276
Index of names and subjects......Page 285