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An engagement with Plato's Republic : a companion to the Republic / Basil Mitchell, J.R. Lucas.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Mitchell, Basil, 1917-2011.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Plato. Republic.
- Plato.
- Physical Description:
- xi, 177 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Aldershot, Hants, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, [2003]
- Contents:
- 1 Questions Asked 1
- Shadow Boxing 1
- Cleitophon's Suggestion 4
- Who was Thrasymachus? 5
- Thrasymachus' Position 6
- Difficulties for this Interpretation 9
- Three Further Arguments Against Thrasymachus 11
- 2 Morality as Mental Health 15
- Dissatisfaction 15
- Structure of the Republic 15
- The Case Against Morality 18
- Identification with Society 22
- The Analogy between Individuals and Societies 24
- Mental Metaphors 29
- Facets of Personality 30
- Threefold Classification 32
- 3 The Return of the Self 36
- Alternatives 36
- The Decline of the Constitution 36
- Power and Glory 39
- The Sovereignty of Wealth 40
- Free for All 41
- The Depths of Degradation 43
- 4 Knowledge and Opinion 45
- Who are the [characters not reproducible]? 45
- Knowledge and Necessity 45
- Knowledge as Understanding 47
- The Ontology of Knowledge 49
- Between Knowledge and Ignorance 50
- The Corruption of the Intelligentsia 52
- In Defence of Opinion 54
- Knowledge and Opinion: Reason and Faith 55
- 5 Theories of Forms 58
- A Theory of Adjectives 58
- A Theory of Nouns 61
- The Third Man 63
- The Logic of Nouns 66
- Objects of Knowledge 67
- Necessity 68
- 6 Plato's Theory of Argument 73
- The Search for Absolute Cogency 73
- Deduction 75
- Plato's Philosophies of Mathematics 77
- The Axiomatic Method 82
- The Price of Postulating 83
- The Search for First Principles 86
- 7 The Search for the Good 88
- The Sun, Line and Cave 88
- Difficulties with the Traditional Interpretation 89
- The Traditional View Reconstructed 92
- Plato's Use of Allegory 97
- The Cave Interpreted 98
- The Nature of Dialectic 101
- An Architectural Analogy 104
- The Rational Grounding of Morality 107
- 8 Morality and Happiness 109
- The Challenge Met? 109
- A Kantian Plato? 110
- Is Plato's Argument Broken-backed? 114
- 9 Plato and Pluralism 117
- The Different Faces of Democracy 117
- Plato Against Athenian Democracy 117
- Plato Against Egalitarianism 119
- Pluralism 120
- Diversity and Toleration 122
- Rational Decision Between Forms of Life 126
- Autonomy and Objectivity 128
- 10 Sex, Self and Power 131
- Plato's Feminism 131
- Emotional Involvement 133
- Homosexuality 133
- The Abolition of the Self 134
- Dynasties and Power 136
- The Real Origin of Sin 138
- Modern Feminists and Plato 141
- 11 Plato and Education 144
- Jowett's Ideal 144
- Indoctrination and Censorship 145
- Higher Education 148
- The Transmission of Mores 152
- 12 The Quarrel with the Poets 154
- Education and Drama 154
- Copy of a Copy 156
- The Appeal of Art 158
- The Rationality of Literature 163
- Envoi 167
- Schematic Analyses of Text 168.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0754633659
- 0754633667
- OCLC:
- 50285010
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