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Genre/Form: | Commentaren (vorm) |
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Named Person: | Plato. |
Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Mark L McPherran |
ISBN: | 9780521491907 0521491908 |
OCLC Number: | 651077865 |
Description: | xiii, 273 pages ; 24 cm. |
Contents: | Introduction / Mark L. McPherran -- Socrates in the Republic / G.R.F. Ferrari -- Platonic ring-composition and Republic 10 / Rachel Barney -- The Atlantis story : the Republic and the Timaeus / Julia Annas -- Ethics and politics in Socrates' defense of justice / Rachana Kamtekar -- Return to the cave / Nicholas D. Smith -- Degenerate regimes in Plato's Republic / Zena Hitz -- Virtue, luck and choice at the end of the Republic / Mark L. McPherran -- Plato's divided soul / Christopher Shields -- The meaning of "saphēneia" in Plato's divided line / J.H. Lesher -- Plato's philosophical method in the Republic : the divided line (510b-511d) / Hugh H. Benson -- Blindness and reorientation : education and the acquisition of knowledge in the Republic / C.D.C. Reeve -- Music all pow'rful / Malcolm Schofield. |
Series Title: | Cambridge critical guides. |
Responsibility: | edited by Mark L. McPherran. |
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'In the past few years, the Republic's readers have already been lucky enough to see two other fine anthologies dedicated to that dialogue ... This new Critical Guide is much shorter than those, but it stands well in their company ... This volume, a collection of papers that were mostly presented at a 2008 conference, is pitched to specialists slightly more than the other anthologies are ... its selections are shorter, so even the difficult chapters feel more inviting than longer versions of them would have been. Freshness is at a premium ... rich assortment ... a wide spectrum of issues has been updated in this excellent book. Every philosopher who has thought about the Republic will find something here that illuminates an aspect of the dialogue; specialists will want to spend time with many of the twelve selections.' Nickolas Pappas, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews Read more...

