دانلود کتاب The Routledge Guidebook to Plato's Republic

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Machine generated contents note: pt. I General introduction --
1. Plato and the Republic --
Historical background --
The life of Plato --
Platonic dialogue --
Literary antecedents --
The Republic --
Suggestions for further reading --
pt. II The argument of the Republic --
2. What is justice? (Book 1) --
The peculiar nature of Book 1 --
Cephalus 338b-331d) --
Polemarchus (331e-335e) --
Suggestions for further reading --
3. What good is justice? (Books 1-2) --
Thrasymachus (336b-3544C) --
Claucon and Adeimantus --
Suggestions for further reading --
4. Justice in the city (Books 2-4) --
The city and the soul (368b-369b) --
The first and second cities (369b-373e) --
The guardians (373e-412b) --
Class relations and the justice of a city (412b-434c) --
Suggestions for further reading --
5. Justice in the soul (Book 4) --
Justice in the soul (434d-445e) --
Further discussion --
Suggestions for further reading. 6. Radical politics (Books 5-7) --
The digression --
Two waves of paradox (451C-471b) --
Philosopher-rulers (471C-502C) --
Philosophers in the good city (502c-541b) --
Suggestions for further reading --
7. Metaphysics and epistemology (Books 5-7) --
The problem with particulars (475e-480a) --
The Form of the Good (503e-518b) --
An education in metaphysics (521c-539d) --
Review of Books 5-7 --
Suggestions for further reading --
8. Injustice in the soul and in the city (Books 8-9) --
Degenerate forms of the city and the soul (544a-576a) --
Three comparisons between just and unjust lives (576b-587b) --
Conclusion (587c-592b) --
Suggestions for further reading --
9. Art and immortality (Book 10) --
The argument against all poetry (595a-608b) --
More consequences of justice and injustice (6088c-621d) --
Suggestions for further reading --
pt. III General issues --
10. Plato\'s ethics and politics --
What is the calculating part of the soul (reason)? --
Postscript on two philosophers --
Is the Republic\'s political philosophy paternalistic? --
Is Plato a theorist of totalitarian government? 11. Plato\'s metaphysics and epistemology --
How do the Republic\'s treatments of Forms compare to one another? --
What sorts of properties have Forms associated with them? --
12. Plato\'s abuses and uses of poetry --
How does the early censorship of poetry in Books 2 and 3 compare to the final rejection of all artistic imitation? --
How is Plato\'s view of art related to his view of beauty? --
How can the rejection of poetry be squared with Plato\'s own use of literary devices, myths, and images? --
Aristotle on Plato and poetry --
13. The afterlife of the Republic --
Plato in later antiquity --
The Republic in later antiquity --
The Republic in modernity --
A last word --
Suggestions for further reading.