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Blindness and reorientation : problems in Plato's Republic / C.D.C. Reeve.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Reeve, C. D. C., 1948- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Plato. Republic.
- Plato.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xvi, 214 pages)
- Other Title:
- Problems in Plato's Republic
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Oxford University Press, [2013]
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- C.D.C. Reeve develops a powerful new account of the age-old argument over whether the just are happier than the unjust drawing from a new understanding of Plato's conception of philosophy.
- Contents:
- Human wisdom
- Alcibiades and the socratic craft of love
- Cephalus, Odysseus, and the importance of experience
- Glaucon's thrasymachean challenge
- Souls, soul-parts, and persons
- From beauty to goodness
- Education and the acquisition of knowledge
- Craft, dialectic, and the form of the good
- The happiness of the philosopher-kings.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on Dec. 20, 2012).
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-931145-5
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