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Book SynopsisPlato's Republic as a Philosophical Drama on Doing Well reimagines the central theme of Plato's foundational work through an interpretation of its characters as paradigms of the apparent good. Focusing attention on the dialogue itself, Ivor Ludlam provides an innovative, holistic, and dramatic new perspective on the classic text.
Trade ReviewIvor Ludlam succeeds in unifying the Republic’s multiplicity of ideas and themes, and in taming what might otherwise appear a great tangle. Ludlam’s ingenious organizing principle is the correspondence between the dialogue’s characters and the political types Socrates describes. Treating the dialogue’s philosophical content as unfolding through its drama, this work honors Plato as a philosopher whose identity stubbornly resists submersion in that of any of the characters he limns. In the Republic, Plato is thus able to present his unique and inspiring vision of philosophy as the dialectical study of dialectic. -- Roslyn Weiss, Lehigh University
Table of ContentsChapter 1. Introduction Chapter 2. The Thrasymachus Problem Chapter 3. A Philosophical Drama Chapter 4. The Characters Chapter 5. Socrates and the Logos Chapter 6. The Digression Chapter 7. A Model Dialogue Chapter 8. Doing Well Chapter 9. A Dialogue on Apparently Doing Well
