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Book SynopsisIn this rendition, first published in 2000, Ferrari and Griffith have produced a vivid, dignified and accurate textbook of one of the great works of Western political thought. It contains an expanded introduction assessing the cultural and political background and general argument; text notes; summary of content; full glossary; chronology of events; and guide to further reading.Trade Review"[Griffith's] aim was to traslate the Greek text as if it were a conversation, and he has succeeded admirably." Library Journal"In addition to a vivid, dignified and accurate rendition of Plato's text, the student and general reader will find many aids to comprehension in this volume: an introduction that assesses the cultural background to the Republic, its place within political philosophy, and its general argument; succinct notes in the body of the text; an analytical summary of the work's content; a full glossary of proper names; a chronology of important events; and a guide to further reading. The result is an accomplished and accessible edition of this seminal work, suitable for philosophers and classicists as well as historians of political thought at all levels." African Sun Times Review of BooksTable of ContentsIntroduction: the thirty; Faction; A Spartan utopia?; The philosopher and the king; A political work?; City and soul; Mathematics and metaphysics; A guide to further reading; Principal dates; Abbreviations and conventions; Editor's synopsis of The Republic; The Republic: Book 1; Book 2; Book 3; Book 4; Book 5; Book 6; Book 7; Book 8; Book 9; Book 10.

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Book SynopsisThis highly regarded volume features a modern translation of all ten books of The Republic along with a synoptic table of contents, a prefatory essay, and an appendix on The Spindle of Necessity by the translator and editor, Raymond Larson. Also included are an introduction by Eva T.H.Table of ContentsPreface and background to the Republic xiii Introduction xxiii Principal Dates xlvii Current Opinions of Justice Refuted (Book 1) 1 Introductory Dialogue (Socrates and Cephalus, 328c-331d) 2 First Definition (Cephalus, 331a-d) 5 Refutation (332c-335d) 6 Third Definition (Thrasymachus, 338c-343a) 13 Refutation (339b-e) 14 Redefinition of Ruler (340d-341a) 15 Refutation (341c-343a) 16 New Argument (343a-348a) 18 Refutations of (a): i) 345b-348a) 20 Refutation of (b), 352d-354a 28 Conclusion (354a-c) 30 Justice Reexamined, in the State and in the Individual (Books 2-4) 31 Adeimantus (362d-367e) 35 The Problem Examined and Solved (368c-445e) 40 Second State of the State (372d-427c) 44 Elementary Education of the guardians (376c-415d) 48 Gymnastics (physical education), 403c-412b 73 Instilling and testing patriotism and leadership, 412c-415d 81 Living arrangements of guardians and auxiliaries (415d-427c) 85 Conclusion (427c-434d) 94 Wisdom = the knowledge of the guardians (428a-429a) 95 Courage = the auxiliaries’ opinion of “what is and is not to be feared” (429a-30c) 96 Temperance = agreement of all three classes about who should rule and be ruled (430d-432b) 97 Justice = each of the three classes “tending its own business” and not preempting the work of another (432b-434d) 99 Composition of the Soul (434d-441c) 101 Conclusion (441d-444e) 109 Degeneration Regimes and Souls, Interrupted (445b-449a) 113 Digression: The Best Regime and Men (Books 5-7) 114 Organization of the Best Regime (451c-461e) 116 Women and children will not be private possessions but common to all of the men. Marriage arrangements, eugenics (457c-461e) 122 The Superiority and Possibility of Such a City (462a-473e) 126 Excursus: regulations for warfare (466e-471c) 131 Such a city is not impossible (471e-473c) 136 Reminder that the best state is only a model, not completely realizable in practice (472b-473b). It is possible only if philosophers become kings or kings philosophers (473c-3), 138 The Best Men: Philosopher Kings (Guardians), Book 5, 474b-Book 7 139 The Philosophic Nature (485a-503e) 147 Higher Education of the Guardians (504a-535a) 165 The Simple of the Sun (506e-509b) 168 The Simile of the Divided Line (509d-511e) 171 The Simile of the Cave (514a-521b) 174 Curriculum (521c-535a) 181 Plane geometry, 526c-527c 186 Harmonics, 530d-531c 190 Selection of the Guardians (535a-540c) 195 Brief Excursus (540d-541b) 200 Degenerate Regimes and Souls, Resumed From Book 5 (Books 8 and 9) 201 Cause of Change or Decline in a State: Civil War (545c-547c) 203 Degenerate Regimes and Men, Described and Compared (547c-592b) 205 Oilgarchy (rule of the wealthy few) and the oligarchic man (550c-555b) 208 Democracy (rule of the people) and the democratic man (555b-562a) 213 Tyranny (dictatorship) and the tyrannical man (562a-580a) 220 The five types are judged for their goodness and happiness and ranked in the order in which they were presented: Aristocracy and the aristocratic man are the best and happiness; tyranny and the tyrant are the worst and most miserable (580a-588a) 237 Conclusion: The aristocrat is just, the tyrant unjust. Therefore justice makes a man happy, injustice makes him unhappy (588b-592b) 247 Denunciation of Imitative Poetry (Book 10, 595a-608b) 251 Imitative poetry appeals to the emotions rather than to the mind (602c-605c) 259 Imitative poetry deforms character (605c-608b) 263 Immortality and the Rewards of Justice (608b-End) 265 Rewards of Justice and Punishments of Injustice in This Life (612b-614a) 269 Rewards and Punishments After Death (614a-621d) 271 Appendix: The Spindle of Necessity 279 Bibliography 283

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Book SynopsisIn this section-by-section commentary, Benardete argues that Plato's Republic is a holistic analysis of the beautiful, the good, and the just. This book provides a fresh interpretation of the Republic and a new understanding of philosophy as practised by Plato and Socrates.

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Book SynopsisTracing a central theme of Plato's Republic, the author reconsiders in this study the nature and purpose of the comparison between the structure of society and that of the individual soul. With clarity and insight, he conveys the relation between the city and the soul and the choice between tyranny and philosophy.Trade Review"The good thing about this little book is that it is controversial. Ferrari is not afraid to stick his neck out, and he forces one to reexamine what one thinks oneself, if one disagrees with him." - John Dillon, Bryn Mawr Classical Review"

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Book SynopsisOne of the central challenges to contemporary political philosophy is the apparent impossibility of arriving at any commonly agreed upon truths. As Nietzsche observed in his Will to Power, the currents of relativism that have come to characterize modern thought can be said to have been born with ancient sophistry. If we seek to understand the strengths and weaknesses of contemporary radical relativism, we must therefore look first to the sophists of antiquity the most famous and challenging of whom is Protagoras. With Sophistry and Political Philosophy, Robert C. Bartlett provides the first close reading of Plato's two-part presentation of Protagoras. In the Protagoras, Plato sets out the sophist's moral and political teachings, while the Theaetetus, offers a distillation of his theoretical and epistemological arguments. Taken together, the two dialogues demonstrate that Protagoras is attracted to one aspect of conventional morality the nobility of courage, which in turn is connected t

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Book SynopsisFaced with the difficult task of discerning Plato's true ideas from the contradictory voices he used to express them, scholars have never fully made sense of the many incompatibilities within and between the dialogues. In this book, the author explains how these prose dramas cohere to reveal a comprehensive Platonic understanding of philosophy.Trade Review"Brimming with original insights, this massive book offers a comprehensive vision of the entire Platonic corpus.... Both analytic philosophers and literary interpreters, who eschew argument in favor of artistic structure and presentation of character, will profit from engagement with this brilliant study.... This book will allow scholars of all persuasions to make discoveries at every turn as the author guides them through territory they thought they knew well." (Choice)"

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Book SynopsisInterprets and pairs two important Platonic dialogs, the Gorgias and the Phaedrus, illuminating Socrates' notion of rhetoric and Plato's conception of morality and eros in the human soul. This book features a novel interpretation that addresses numerous issues in Plato studies.Trade Review"Benardete puts together, following Platonic clues, what the dialogues keep apart.... This bare sketch... cannot indicate the book's rich texture and fluidity of thought, sensitivity to the nuances of Greek, originality, and difficulty." - Canadian Philosophical Reviews"

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Book SynopsisTable of ContentsPrefaceIntroduction1. The First Crisis in First Philosophy2. Achilles and the Iliad3. The Aristeia of Diomedes and the Plot of the Iliad4. The Furies of Aeschylus5. Sophocles' Oedipus Tyrannus6. Euripides' Hippolytus7. On Greek Tragedy8. Physics and Tragedy: On Plato's Cratylus9. On Plato's Symposium10. Protagoras's Myth and Logos11. On Plato's Lysis12. On Interpreting Plato's Charmides13. Plato's Laches: A Question of Definition14. On Plato's Phaedo15. Plato's Theaetetus: On the Way of the Logos16. On Plato's Sophist17. The Plan of Plato's Statesman18. On the Timaeus19. On Wisdom and Philosophy: The First Two Chapters of Aristotle's Metaphysics A20. Strauss on PlatoSelected Works by Seth BenardeteIndex

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Book SynopsisAn analysis of Plato and the relationship he posits among language, truth, and the world.

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Book SynopsisPlato's "Symposium" - translated here, and with a commentary - is arguably one of the greatest works on the nature of love ever written. It recounts a drinking party following an evening meal, where the guests include Aristophanes, Alcibiades and Socrates. The revellers discuss a variety of topics.

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"For generations to come, this study--on account of the graceful lucidity of its prose and the penetrating depth of its interpretative analysis--will be the essential guide to Plato's rich and dramatic confrontation with the challenge of Protagoras."--Thomas L. Pangle, University of Texas at Austin "Near the beginning of Sophistry and Political Philosophy, the author cites Friedrich Nietzsche's observation that our 'contemporary way of thinking' is 'Protagorean.' If so, then understanding sophistry in general and its inventor, Protagoras, in particular is a key to understanding ourselves. . . . Robert Bartlett is an ideal guide for such an exploration."--Claremont Review of Books "This book is a careful, insightful, analysis of Plato's Protagoras, and of the examination of Protagoras' teaching in Plato's Theaetetus. Through his discussions, Bartlett provides us with a very thoughtful exploration of the important and enduring problem of the relation between philosophy and sophistry."--Mark Blitz, Claremont McKenna College

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Book SynopsisSurveying many of Plato’s dialogues from the early, middle, and late periods, prominent philosopher John M. Rist shows how Plato gradually realized the need for metaphysics to support his ethical position and that a rigorous ethics required a secure metaphysics grounded in universal values.

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Book SynopsisThis Sourcebook is intended for students of liberal arts and great books. It treats such books as primary sources for inquiring into the nature of human speech because they clarify the terms and stakes of perennial questions thinking human beings ask themselves about persuasive speaking. By crystallizing viable claims about the nature of what we confront in politics and society--live claims for us to confront in our own, with the stakes of that confrontation being live as well--they originate a dialectic with one another and with us their readers.Cicero called rhetoric a liberal art necessary for every citizen of a free republic. In the polities of ancient Greece and Rome, rhetoric was politically potent because oratory was the regular means of political decision. Words were decisive, often a matter of life and death, not merely for individuals but for peoples. In human milieux where human speech is so politically decisive, reflection upon its nature became keen.The selections of this sourcebook have been arranged in three sequences. The first two sequences comprise philosophical dialogues on the ends of rhetoric. Selections from Plato's Gorgias, Phaedrus, and Apology examine the rhetorician or teacher of rhetoric, and then Cicero's De oratore offers us a dialectic among practitioners about its practice. The philosophical dialogues on the art's intended ends and causative effects provide the theoretical and ethical context for examining its means. These philosophical dialogues are thus propaedeutic to the third sequence, which focusses on the art itself with selections from Aristotle's treatise On Rhetoric, paired with orations from Thucydides' History of the Peloponnesian War.

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Book SynopsisPlato's Crito examines a single moral decision, whether Socrates ought to escape from his death-cell. Stokes's book discusses Socrates' arguments against Crito's offer of escape. It construes Socrates' questions as genuine questions, which clarify and undermine Critos positions.

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Book SynopsisThis text examines the relationship between Plato's conception of the nature of the universe, and his moral and political thought. Cropsey interprets seven of Plato's dialogues here - Theaetetus, Euthyphro, Sophist, Statesman, Apology, Crito and Phaedo.

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Book SynopsisIan Mueller is Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at the University of Chicago.Table of ContentsPreface Introduction Textual Emendations TRANSLATION Notes Bibliography English-Greek Glossary Greek-English Index Index of Passages Cited Subject Index

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Book Synopsis"Theaetus," the "Sophist," and the "Statesman" are a trilogy of Platonic dialgues that show Socrates formulating his conception of philosophy as he prepares the defense for his trial. Originally published together as "The Being of the Beautiful

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Book SynopsisIan Mueller is Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at the University of Chicago, USA.

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Book SynopsisAn insightful commentary on Plato's Laws, his complex final work. TheLawswas Plato's last work, his longest, and one of his most difficult. In contrast to theRepublic,which presents an abstract ideal, theLawsappears to provide practical guidelines for the establishment and maintenance of political order in the real world. Classicist Seth Benardete offers a rich analysis of each of the twelve books of theLaws, which illuminates Plato's major themes and arguments concerning theology, the soul, justice, and education. Most importantly, Benardete shows how music in a broad sense, including drama, epic poetry, and even puppetry, mediates between reason and the city in Plato's philosophy of law. Benardete also uncovers the work's concealed ontological dimension,explaining why it is hidden and how it can be brought to light. In establishing the coherence and underlying organization of Plato's last dialogue, Benardete makes a significant contribution to Platonic studies.Trade ReviewSeth BenardetePlato’s Laws “Plato’s Laws is, in proportion to its size, the most neglected of his works. It is dauntingly massive and complex, but it must contain Plato’s final views on a large range of issues, political social, ethical, metaphysical, and especially religious. Benardete brought to the task the skills of a classicist, a synoptic vision of Plato’s goals and methodology, and a lifetime of writing challenging books on many of the other dialogues. Of the remarkably original ideas in his work, we may note at the start Benardete’s attention to the word “nomoi,” meaning both “laws” and “songs”; he shows that Plato plays with ambiguity, making music a pathway to the understanding of the legal structure of the state. Book ten of the Laws is often called ‘Plato’s Theology,’ and it deserves that title, but Benardete shows how all twelve books of the dialogue are permeated with Plato’s theological understanding of being and the state.”--Religious Studies Review * Religious Studies Review *Table of ContentsPrefaceAcknowledgmentsI. The Eidetic and the Genetic1. War and Peace2. Courage and Moderation3. Drunkenness4. The Puppet MastersII. Education and Imitation1. The Beautiful2. Kinds of Pleasure3. The Just4. The Chorus of DionysusIII. History1. Homer2. The Dorians3. Persia and AthensIV. Law and Prelude1. People and Place2. Regimes and Law3. Double Law and PreludeV. Prescriptions1. Knowledge and Ignorance2. The Real and the ImaginaryVI. On Getting Started1. Beginnings and Magistrates2. Succession3. MarriageVII. Education1. Unwritten Law2. Consecration3. The Laws4. Imitation5. False Impressions6. HuntingVIII. The First End of the Laws1. War Games2. Eros3. Agricultural and Commercial LawIX. Criminal Law1. Hard Cases2. The Beautiful, the Just, and the Good3. Socratic Ignorance4. ViolenceX. Theology1. Atheism2. Soul and Body3. ProvidenceXI. Private Law1. Making Good2. Estrangements3. ComedyXII. Public Law1. Heroic Virtue2. Reviewers and Observers3. The Nocturnal CouncilEpilogueIndexText Problems in Laws

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Book SynopsisWhen Plato set his dialogs, written texts were disseminated primarily by performance and recitation. He wrote them, however, when literacy was expanding. Jill Frank argues that there are unique insights to be gained from appreciating Plato's dialogs as written texts to be read and reread. At the center of these insights are two distinct ways of learning to read in the dialogs. One approach that appears in the Statesman, Sophist, and Protagoras, treats learning to read as a top-down affair, in which authoritative teachers lead students to true beliefs. Another, recommended by Socrates, encourages trial and error and the formation of beliefs based on students' own fallible experiences. In all of these dialogs, learning to read is likened to coming to know or understand something. Given Plato's repeated presentation of the analogy between reading and coming to know, what can these two approaches tell us about his dialogs' representations of philosophy and politics? With Poetic Justice, Ji

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Book SynopsisPresents an examination of three sites in Derrida's thought: his interpretation of Heidegger regarding the privileging of the question; his account of the Platonic figure of the good; and his interpretation of Plato's discourse on the crucial notion of the chora, the originating space of the universe.Trade Review"All of John Sallis's work is essential, but this book in particular is remarkable.... Sallis shows better than anyone I have ever read what it means to practice philosophy on the verge." - Walter Brogan, Villanova University "Sallis has written a unique work that combines philosophical analysis with a heartfelt reflection on his friendship with Derrida." - Library Journal"

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Book SynopsisFaced with the difficult task of discerning Plato's true ideas from the contradictory voices he used to express them, scholars have never fully made sense of the many incompatibilities within and between the dialogues. This title explains how these prose dramas cohere to reveal a comprehensive Platonic understanding of philosophy.Trade Review"Plato's Philosophers is brilliantly conceived, remarkably well executed, decidedly innovative, and enormously important. Illuminating a pattern of dramatic cohesiveness within Plato's body of work, Catherine Zuckert offers a compelling alternative to interpretations that trace a developmental logic across the dialogues. This book will spur us to rethink concepts and perspectives that have been taken for granted for too long. It is magisterial in the finest sense." - Gerald Mara, Georgetown University"

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Book SynopsisWorks in this volume recount the circumstances of Socrates’ trial and execution in 399 BC. Euthyphro attempts to define holiness; Apology is Socrates’ defense speech; in Crito he discusses justice and defends his refusal to be rescued from prison; Phaedo offers arguments for the immortality of the soul.

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