Plato's Republic : a study / Stanley Rosen.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rosen, Stanley, 1929-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Plato. Republic.

Plato.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (432 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New Haven : Yale University Press, c2005.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In this book a distinguished philosopher offers a comprehensive interpretation of Plato's most controversial dialogue. Treating the Republic as a unity and focusing on the dramatic form as the presentation of the argument, Stanley Rosen challenges earlier analyses of the Republic (including the ironic reading of Leo Strauss and his disciples) and argues that the key to understanding the dialogue is to grasp the author's intention in composing it, in particular whether Plato believed that the city constructed in the Republic is possible and desirable.Rosen demonstrates that the fundamental principles underlying the just city are theoretically attractive but that the attempt to enact them in practice leads to conceptual incoherence and political disaster. The Republic, says Rosen, is a vivid illustration of the irreconcilability of philosophy and political practice.

Contents:

Cephalus and Polemarchus

Thrasymachus

Glaucon and Adeimantus

Paideia I: the luxurious city

Paideia II: the purged city

Justice

The female drama

Possibility

The philosophical nature

The good, the divided line, and the cave: the education of the philosopher

Political decay

Happiness and pleasure

The quarrel between philosophy and poetry

The immortal soul.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. 397-403) and index.

ISBN:

9786611730314

9781281730312

1281730319

9780300129502

0300129505

OCLC:

815684487