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Routledge Philosophy GuideBook to Plato and the Republic Nickolas Pappas

Routledge Philosophy GuideBook to Plato and the Republic By Nickolas Pappas

Routledge Philosophy GuideBook to Plato and the Republic by Nickolas Pappas


Summary

This text guides readers through Plato's Republic, his most important work. It provides a background to, and analysis of, the text and also assesses Plato's continuing importance in Western thought.

Routledge Philosophy GuideBook to Plato and the Republic Summary

Routledge Philosophy GuideBook to Plato and the Republic by Nickolas Pappas

Plato is one of the most important figures in Western thought. The Republic is his most important, and most widely studied, work. This GuideBook will steer the reader clearly through this work.
Plato and the Republic will introduce and assess:
* Plato's life and the background to the Republic
* The text and ideas of the Republic
* Plato's continuing importance to Western thought
Ideal for students coming to Plato for the first time, this GuideBook will be vital for all students of Plato in philosophy, politics and classics at all levels.

Table of Contents

Part 1 Plato and the Republic 1. Plato and the Repulic Part 2 The ARgument of the Republic 2. What is Justice? (Book 1) 3. What good is justice? (Books 1-2) 4. Justice in the city (books 2-4) 5. Justice in the Soul (Book 4) 6. Radical Politics (Books 5-7) 7. Metaphysics and epistemology (books 5-7) 8. Injustice in the soul and in the city (books 8-9) 9. Art and Immortality (book 10) Part 3 General Issues 10. Plato's Ethics and Politics 11. PLato's Metaphysics and epistemology 12. Plato's abuses and uses of poetry Appendix: Fundamental premises in the Republic's Arguments

Additional information

GOR001459813
9780415095327
0415095328
Routledge Philosophy GuideBook to Plato and the Republic by Nickolas Pappas
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Taylor & Francis Ltd
19950601
248
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