An introduction to Plato's Republic
By: by Julia Annas
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 1981
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 362
ISBN-13: 9780585156996
Subjects: POLITICAL SCIENCE; General; Republic (Plato)
Description: "Stressing Plato's desire to stimulate philosophical thinking in his readers, Julia Annas here demonstrates the coherence of his main moral argument on the nature of justice, and expounds related concepts of education, human motivation, knowledge and understanding. In a clear systematic fashion, this book shows that modern moral philosophy still has much to learn from Plato's attempt to move the focus from questions of what acts the just person ought to perform to the more profound questions of what sort of person the just person ought to be"--Pub. website.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 355-359) and index.
Table of contents: title: Book one : Cephalus and Polemarchus : moral complacency ; Thrasymachus; title: The form of Plato's argument; title: The just society. The first city ; Education and philosophy of education ; A sketch of the ideal state; title: Parts and virtues of state and soul; title: The defence of justice; title: Plato's state. Equality and rights ; Fraternity and unity ; Women's place ; Is the ideal state possible?; title: Belief, knowledge, and understanding; title: The "theory" of forms; title: Understanding and the good : sun, line, and cave; title: Philosophy and mathematics. The propaedeutic studies ; Dialectic; title: The benefits of justice. The types of unjust state and individual ; Justice and happiness in the individual; title: Plato's moral theories; title: Book ten. Poetry ; The ending of the Republic.