| Physical description |
xi, 177 pages ; 24 cm |
| Notes |
Includes index. |
| Contents |
1 Questions Asked 1 -- Shadow Boxing 1 -- Cleitophon's Suggestion 4 -- Who was Thrasymachus? 5 -- Thrasymachus' Position 6 -- Difficulties for this Interpretation 9 -- Three Further Arguments Against Thrasymachus 11 -- 2 Morality as Mental Health 15 -- Dissatisfaction 15 -- Structure of the Republic 15 -- Case Against Morality 18 -- Identification with Society 22 -- Analogy between Individuals and Societies 24 -- Mental Metaphors 29 -- Facets of Personality 30 -- Threefold Classification 32 -- 3 Return of the Self 36 -- Alternatives 36 -- Decline of the Constitution 36 -- Power and Glory 39 -- Sovereignty of Wealth 40 -- Free for All 41 -- Depths of Degradation 43 -- 4 Knowledge and Opinion 45 -- Who are the [characters not reproducible]? 45 -- Knowledge and Necessity 45 -- Knowledge as Understanding 47 -- Ontology of Knowledge 49 -- Between Knowledge and Ignorance 50 -- Corruption of the Intelligentsia 52 -- In Defence of Opinion 54 -- Knowledge and Opinion: Reason and Faith 55 -- 5 Theories of Forms 58 -- A Theory of Adjectives 58 -- A Theory of Nouns 61 -- Third Man 63 -- Logic of Nouns 66 -- Objects of Knowledge 67 -- Necessity 68 -- 6 Plato's Theory of Argument 73 -- Search for Absolute Cogency 73 -- Deduction 75 -- Plato's Philosophies of Mathematics 77 -- Axiomatic Method 82 -- Price of Postulating 83 -- Search for First Principles 86 -- 7 Search for the Good 88 -- Sun, Line and Cave 88 -- Difficulties with the Traditional Interpretation 89 -- Traditional View Reconstructed 92 -- Plato's Use of Allegory 97 -- Cave Interpreted 98 -- Nature of Dialectic 101 -- An Architectural Analogy 104 -- Rational Grounding of Morality 107 -- 8 Morality and Happiness 109 -- Challenge Met? 109 -- A Kantian Plato? 110 -- Is Plato's Argument Broken-backed? 114 -- 9 Plato and Pluralism 117 -- Different Faces of Democracy 117 -- Plato Against Athenian Democracy 117 -- Plato Against Egalitarianism 119 -- Pluralism 120 -- Diversity and Toleration 122 -- Rational Decision Between Forms of Life 126 -- Autonomy and Objectivity 128 -- 10 Sex, Self and Power 131 -- Plato's Feminism 131 -- Emotional Involvement 133 -- Homosexuality 133 -- Abolition of the Self 134 -- Dynasties and Power 136 -- Real Origin of Sin 138 -- Modern Feminists and Plato 141 -- 11 Plato and Education 144 -- Jowett's Ideal 144 -- Indoctrination and Censorship 145 -- Higher Education 148 -- Transmission of Mores 152 -- 12 Quarrel with the Poets 154 -- Education and Drama 154 -- Copy of a Copy 156 -- Appeal of Art 158 -- Rationality of Literature 163 -- Envoi 167 -- Schematic Analyses of Text 168. |
| Other author |
Lucas, J. R. (John Randolph), 1929-
|
| Subject |
Plato. Republic.
|
| ISBN |
0754633659 (alkaline paper) |
|
0754633667 (paperback: alkaline paper) |
|
