Dialogues With Dostoevsky
Subtitle: The Overwhelming Questions
Publisher: Stanford University Press; Stanford Univ Pr
Published: December 1996
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9780804728034
Subjects: Novels, other prose & writers: 19th century; Literature - Classics / Criticism; Russian; Literary Criticism; Russia; Russian & Former Soviet Union
First sentence: At the end of Book 4 of Plato's Republic, Socrates, pursuing his argument that the soul is a unity in diversity, provides an example in which "spiritedness" or "noble wrath" (thumos), appears to be the natural ally of reason: I once heard something that I trust.