This Companion provides a comprehensive account of this outstanding work, which remains among the most frequently read works of Greek philosophy, indeed of Classical antiquity in general. The sixteen essays, by authors who represent various academic disciplines, bring a spectrum of interpretive approaches to bear in order to aid the understanding of a wide-ranging audience, from first-time readers of the Republic who require guidance, to more experienced readers who wish to explore contemporary currents in the work's interpretation. The three initial chapters address aspects of the work as a whole. They are followed by essays that match closely the sequence in which topics are presented in the ten books of the Republic. Since the Republic returns frequently to the same topics by different routes, so do the authors of this volume, who provide the readers with divergent yet complementary perspectives by which to appreciate the Republic's principal concerns.
Author(s): G. R. F. Ferrari (editor)
Series: Cambridge Companions to Philosophy
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Year: 2007
Language: English
Pages: xxvi, 533 p. :
City: Cambridge; New York
Copyright
Contents
Contributors
Abbreviations
Editor’s Introduction
1 The Protreptic Rhetoric of the Republic / Harvey Yunis
2 The Place of the Republic in Plato’s Political Thought / Christopher Rowe
3 Rewriting the Poets in Plato’s Characters / David K. O’Connor
4 Wise Guys and Smart Alecks in Republic 1 and 2 / Roslyn Weiss
5 Justice and Virtue: The Republic’s Inquiry into Proper Difference / Aryeh Kosman
6 The Noble Lie / Malcolm Schofield
7 The Three-Part Soul / G. R. F. Ferrari
8 Eros in the Republic / Paul W. Ludwig
9 The Utopian Character of Plato’s Ideal City / Donald R. Morrison
10 Philosophy, the Forms, and the Art of Ruling / David Sedley
11 Sun and Line: The Role of the Good / Nicholas Denyer
12 Beginning the “Longer Way” / Mitchell Miller
13 The City-Soul Analogy / Norbert Blössner
14 The Unhappy Tyrant and the Craft of Inner Rule / Richard D. Parry
15 What Is Imitative Poetry and Why Is It Bad? / Jessica Moss
16 The Life-and-Death Journey of the Soul: Interpreting the Myth of Er / Stephen Halliwell
Bibliography
Index of Passages
Index of Names and Subjects
