Blindness and reorientation [electronic resource] : problems in Plato's Republic / C.D.C. Reeve

Author:: Reeve, C. D. C., 1948-
Published:: New York : Oxford University Press, 2013.
Physical Description:: 1 online resource

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Contents:

Machine generated contents note: 1.Human Wisdom -- 2.Alcibiades and the Socratic Craft of Love -- 3.Cephalus, Odysseus, and the Importance of Experience -- 4.Glaucon's Thrasymachean Challenge -- 5.Souls, Soul-Parts, and Persons -- 6.From Beauty to Goodness -- 7.Education and the Acquisition of Knowledge -- 8.Craft, Dialectic, and the Form of the Good -- 9.The Happiness of the Philosopher-Kings.

Summary:

C.D.C. Reeve develops a powerful new account of the age-old argument over whether the just are happier than the unjust drawing from a new understanding of Plato's conception of philosophy.

Subject(s):

Plato. Republic

ISBN:

9780199980659 (ebook)

Bibliography Note:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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