A Socratic introduction to Plato's Republic / Peter Kreeft.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kreeft, Peter, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Plato. Republic.

Plato.

Socrates.

Republic (Plato).

Philosophy--History.

Philosophy.

History.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

97 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

South Bend, Indiana : St. Augustines Press, Inc, [2018]

Contents:

2 Why do you need philosophy? p. 1

3 Why is Plato the best introduction to philosophy? p. 4

4 Who was Socrates? p. 8

5 Introduction to the Republic p. 10

II The Republic

1 The Beginning: Bringing Philosophy into Politics. p. 12

2 The Question: What is Justice? p. 14

3 The Deeper Question: How to Live: Socrates vs. Gyges p. 29

4 Societies as Mirrors of Souls p. 39

5 Plato's Ideal Society p. 40

6 Plato's Psychology p. 45

7 Plato's Metaphysics: the "Theory of Forms" or "Platonic Ideas" p. 47

8 Plato's Parables of the Sun, the Line, and the Cave p. 58

9 Education and Politics; the Parallel Between Souls and States p. 66

10 The Seven Liberal Arts: Plato's Curriculum p. 69

11 Book 8: Four Kinds of Unjust States: Plato's Critique of Democracy p. 71

12 The Main Point Finally Proved: The Profit (Happiness) in Justice p. 74

13 Life After Death: The Rest of the Story

III 31 Footnotes to Plato: The Rest of the History of Philosophy p. 81

1 Aristotle: Realism p. 82

2 Epicurus: Hedonism p. 84

3 Pyrrho: Skepticism p. 84

4 Epictetus: Stoicism p. 84

5 Plotinus: Mysticism p. 85

6 St. Augustine: Christian Platonism p. 85

7 St Thomas Aquinas: Christian Aristotelianism p. 85

8 Machiavelli: "Machiavellianism" p. 86

9 Bacon: The Conquest of Nature by Technology p. 86

10 Descartes: Philosophy by Scientific Method p. 86

11 Spinoza: Pantheism p. 87

12 Hobbes: Materialism p. 87

13 Pascal: Faith as a Wager p. 88

14 Rousseau: "Romanticism" p. 88

15 Locke: Empiricism p. 88

16 Berkeley: Immaterialism p. 89

17 Hume: Skepticism p. 89

18 Kant: Epistemological Idealism p. 90

19 Hegel: Historical Relativism p. 90

20 Marx: Communism p. 90

21 Mill: Utilitarianism p. 91

22 Kierkegaard: Christian Existentialism p. 91

23 Nietzsche: Atheistic Existentialism p. 92

24 Heidegger: Ontological (Being-directed) Existentialism p. 93

25 Sartre: Nihilistic existentialism p. 93

26 Husserl: Phenomenology p. 94

27 James: Pragmatism p. 94

28 Dewey: Ideological Pragmatism p. 94

29 Moore: Ordinary Language p. 95

30 Wittgenstein: Linguistic Analysis p. 95

31 Derrida: Deconstructionism p. 95.

ISBN:

9781587318283

1587318288

OCLC:

954424322