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Record Nr.

UNISA996201340503316

Titolo

The Cambridge companion to Plato's Republic / / edited by G.R.F. Ferrari [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2007

ISBN

1-107-48129-5

1-107-48612-2

1-139-00155-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xxvi, 533 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Collana

Cambridge companions to philosophy

Disciplina

321/.07

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 09 Nov 2015).

Nota di contenuto

Protreptic rhetoric of the Republic / Harvey Yunis -- Place of the Republic in Plato's political thought / Christopher Rowe -- Rewriting the poets in Plato's characters / David K. O'Connor -- Wise guys and smart alecks in Republic 1 and 2 / Roslyn Weiss -- Justice and virtue : the Republic's inquiry into proper difference / Aryeh Kosman -- Noble lie / Malcolm Schofield -- Three-part soul / G.R.F. Ferrari -- Eros in the Republic / Paul W. Ludwig -- Utopian character of Plato's ideal city / Donald R. Morrison -- Philosophy, the forms, and the art of ruling / David Sedley -- Sun and line : the role of the good / Nicholas Denyer -- Beginning the "longer way" / Mitchell Miller -- City-soul analogy / Norbert BloĢˆssner -- Unhappy tyrant and the craft of inner rule / Richard D. Parry -- What is imitative poetry and why is it bad? / Jessica Moss -- Life-and-death journey of the soul : interpreting the myth of Er / Stephen Halliwell.

Sommario/riassunto

This Companion provides a comprehensive account of this outstanding work, which remains among the most frequently read works of Greek philosophy, indeed of Classical antiquity in general. The sixteen essays, by authors who represent various academic disciplines, bring a spectrum of interpretive approaches to bear in order to aid the understanding of a wide-ranging audience, from first-time readers of the Republic who require guidance, to more experienced readers who



wish to explore contemporary currents in the work's interpretation. The three initial chapters address aspects of the work as a whole. They are followed by essays that match closely the sequence in which topics are presented in the ten books of the Republic. Since the Republic returns frequently to the same topics by different routes, so do the authors of this volume, who provide the readers with divergent yet complementary perspectives by which to appreciate the Republic's principal concerns.