The painter of constitutions
Subtitle: selected essays on Plato's Republic
By: Mario Vegetti, Franco Ferrari, Tosca Lynch (eds.).
Edition: 1. Aufl.
Series: International Plato studies -- v. 32; International Plato studies -- v. 32.
Publisher: Academia Verlag
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Sankt Augustin
Language: eng
Number of pages: 344
ISBN-13: 9783896655110
Subjects: Early works to 1800; Political science
Notes: English translation of a selection of 15 essays from the Italian 7-volume commentary on Plato's Republic, edited by Mario Vegetti and published by Bibliopolis in Naples between 1998 and 2007.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 321-344).
Table of contents: title: Thrasymachus / M. Vegetti; title: Poetry : paideia and mimesis / S. Gastaldi; title: The noble lie / F. Calabi; title: The unhappiness of the Guardians and the happiness of the polis / F. De Luise-G. Farinetti; title: Beltista eiper dynata : the status of utopia in the Republic / M. Vegeii; title: Philosophical knowledge and political beliefs in Plato's Replubic V / F. Ferrari; title: Megiston mathema : the idea of the good and its functions / M. Vegetti; title: The idea of the good as cause / F. Ferrari; title: The line and the cave / F. Franco Repellini; title: Dialectics : configurations and functions / M. Vegetti; title: Mathematics and its reform in Plato's time / E. Cattanei; title: Daimonion pragma : an anti-empirical approach to harmonics (Plat. Resp. 7.530b-531d) / A. Meriani; title: Plato's criticism of democracy and oligarchy / L. Bertelli; title: The image of the soul and the happiness of the just man / S. Gastaldi; title: ...Who does what in Resp. 10.596a-597e? / F. Fronterotta.