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Record Nr.

UNINA9910798202903321

Autore

Crotty Kevin <1948->

Titolo

The city-state of the soul : constituting the self in Plato's Republic / / Kevin M. Crotty

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lanham, [Maryland] : , : Lexington Books, , 2016

©2016

ISBN

1-4985-3462-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (282 p.)

Disciplina

126

Soggetti

Soul

Self (Philosophy)

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Preface; Introduction; Chapter One: Why is Thrasymachus So Angry?; Chapter Two: Genealogies of Justice; Chapter Three: Utopia and Its Founder; Chapter Four: Philosophy and the Founder's Perspective; Chapter Five: Why the Philosophers Will Govern; Part Two; Chapter Six: The Soul and Its Parts (I); Chapter Seven: The Soul and Its Parts (II); Chapter Eight: Justice and Action; Chapter Nine: Freedom; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

The City-State of the Soul: Self-Constitution in Plato's Republic offers a reinterpretation of Plato's philosophical masterpiece, which presents the moral life as consisting, most deeply, in the constituting or "founding" of one's own soul. Plato wants to persuade the brightest and most ambitious that the life of justice and, in particular, of just governance puts their talents and ambitions to their best possible use.