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A guide to Plato's Republic

Author: Daryl H Rice
Publisher: New York : Oxford University Press, 1998.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Genre/Form: Ouvrages avant 1800
Named Person: Plato.; Platon.; Plato
Material Type: Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Daryl H Rice
ISBN: 0195112830 9780195112832 0195112849 9780195112849
OCLC Number: 35627652
Description: xv, 142 p. ; 22 cm.
Contents: 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.
Responsibility: Daryl H. Rice.
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