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Plato's Threefold City and Soul

Author : Joshua I. Weinstein

Publisher : Cambridge University Press

Page : 301 pages

File Size : 47,85 MB

Release : 2018-11-01

Category : Philosophy

ISBN : 1316761991

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Plato's 'Republic' constructs an ideal city composed of three parts, parallel to the soul's reason, appetites, and fighting spirit. But confusion and controversy have long surrounded this three-way division and especially the prominent role it assigns to angry and competitive spirit. In Plato's Three-fold City and Soul, Joshua I. Weinstein argues that, for Plato, determination and fortitude are not just expressions of our passionate or emotional natures, but also play an essential role in the rational agency of persons and polities. In the Republic's account, human life requires spirited courage as much as reasoned thought and nutritious food. The discussion ranges over Plato's explication of the logical and metaphysical foundations of justice and injustice, the failures of incomplete and dysfunctional cities, and the productive synergy of our tendencies and capacities that becomes fully evident only in the justice of a self-sufficient political community.



The Blackwell Guide to Plato's Republic

Author : Gerasimos Santas

Publisher : John Wiley & Sons

Page : 320 pages

File Size : 19,28 MB

Release : 2008-04-15

Category : Philosophy

ISBN : 1405150254

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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.



The Brute Within

Author : Hendrik Lorenz

Publisher : Clarendon Press

Page : 240 pages

File Size : 40,77 MB

Release : 2006-04-06

Category : Philosophy

ISBN : 0191537403

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Hendrik Lorenz presents a comprehensive study of Plato's and Aristotle's conceptions of non-rational desire. They see this as something that humans share with animals, and which aims primarily at the pleasures of food, drink, and sex. Lorenz explores the cognitive resources that both philosophers make available for the explanation of such desires, and what they take rationality to add to the motivational structure of human beings. In doing so, he exposes a remarkable degree of continuity between Plato's and Aristotle's thought in this area. He also sheds fresh light, not only on both philosophers' theories of motivation, but also on how they conceive of the mind, both in itself and in relation to the body.



Plato and the Divided Self

Author : Rachel Barney

Publisher : Cambridge University Press

Page : 409 pages

File Size : 38,14 MB

Release : 2012-02-16

Category : History

ISBN : 0521899664

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Investigates Plato's account of the tripartite soul, looking at how the theory evolved over the Republic, Phaedrus and Timaeus.



Phaedrus

Author : Plato

Publisher :

Page : 66 pages

File Size : 45,92 MB

Release : 2020-12

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The Phaedrus, written by Plato, is a dialogue between Plato's protagonist, Socrates, and Phaedrus, an interlocutor in several dialogues. The Phaedrus was presumably composed around 370 BC, about the same time as Plato's Republic and Symposium.



The Republic

Author : By Plato

Publisher : BookRix

Page : 530 pages

File Size : 32,30 MB

Release : 2019-06-15

Category : Philosophy

ISBN : 3736801467

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The Republic is a Socratic dialogue, written by Plato around 380 BCE, concerning the definition of justice, the order and character of the just city-state and the just man. The dramatic date of the dialogue has been much debated and though it must take place some time during the Peloponnesian War, "there would be jarring anachronisms if any of the candidate specific dates between 432 and 404 were assigned". It is Plato's best-known work and has proven to be one of the most intellectually and historically influential works of philosophy and political theory. In it, Socrates along with various Athenians and foreigners discuss the meaning of justice and examine whether or not the just man is happier than the unjust man by considering a series of different cities coming into existence "in speech", culminating in a city (Kallipolis) ruled by philosopher-kings; and by examining the nature of existing regimes. The participants also discuss the theory of forms, the immortality of the soul, and the roles of the philosopher and of poetry in society.



The Embodied Soul in Plato's Later Thought

Author : Chad Jorgenson

Publisher : Cambridge University Press

Page : 229 pages

File Size : 40,13 MB

Release : 2018-04-05

Category : History

ISBN : 1107174120

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Positively re-assesses the relationship between body and soul in Plato's later dialogues, focusing on the harmony between them.



City and Soul in Plato's Republic

Author : G. R. F. Ferrari

Publisher : University of Chicago Press

Page : 131 pages

File Size : 14,44 MB

Release : 2005-09-15

Category : Literary Criticism

ISBN : 0226244377

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Tracing a central theme of Plato's Republic, G. R. F. Ferrari reconsiders in this study the nature and purpose of the comparison between the structure of society and that of the individual soul. In four chapters, Ferrari examines the personalities and social status of the brothers Glaucon and Adeimantus, Plato's notion of justice, coherence in Plato's description of the decline of states, and the tyrant and the philosopher king—a pair who, in their different ways, break with the terms of the city-soul analogy. In addition to acknowledging familiar themes in the interpretation of the Republic—the sincerity of its utopianism, the justice of the philosopher's return to the Cave—Ferrari provocatively engages secondary literature by Leo Strauss, Bernard Williams, and Jonathan Lear. With admirable clarity and insight, Ferrari conveys the relation between the city and the soul and the choice between tyranny and philosophy. City and Soul in Plato's Republic will be of value to students of classics, philosophy, and political theory alike.



The Cambridge Companion to Plato's Republic

Author : Giovanni R. F. Ferrari

Publisher : Cambridge University Press

Page : 38 pages

File Size : 16,62 MB

Release : 2007

Category : Political science

ISBN : 0521839637

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This book provides a fresh and comprehensive account of this outstanding work, which remains among the most frequently read works of Greek philosophy, indeed of Classical antiquity in general.



Laws

Author : Plato

Publisher : DigiCat

Page : 573 pages

File Size : 24,87 MB

Release : 2022-05-28

Category : Political Science

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The Laws is Plato's last, longest, and perhaps, most famous work. It presents a conversation on political philosophy between three elderly men: an unnamed Athenian, a Spartan named Megillus, and a Cretan named Clinias. They worked to create a constitution for Magnesia, a new Cretan colony that would make all of its citizens happy and virtuous. In this work, Plato combines political philosophy with applied legislation, going into great detail concerning what laws and procedures should be in the state. For example, they consider whether drunkenness should be allowed in the city, how citizens should hunt, and how to punish suicide. The principles of this book have entered the legislation of many modern countries and provoke a great interest of philosophers even in the 21st century.