Plato never wrote "The Republic." Ancient editors added a subtitle clarifying the work's true focus: individual psychology ...
Matthew Sharpe works at Deakin. He has received funding from the ARC for work on the history of philosophy as a way of life. He wishes to thank his friend and teacher, Dr. William H. F. Altman, author ...
THIS delightful little book improves on a second reading. It is a mock Platonic dialogue—not pedantically close to the Greek—purporting to give Socrates' account of a lecture tour he has just taken in ...
In her review of “Plato Goes to China” by Shadi Bartsch (Bookshelf, Feb. 27), Martha Bayles rightly defends Leo Strauss against the charge that the professor was an antidemocrat who would have favored ...
Author reveals the fourth element of Plato's model, showing how this dimension transforms the understanding of an influential text in Western philosophy REDDING, Calif., Aug. 5, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- ...
This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Plato's Republic critiques Athenian democracy as practised during the Peloponnesian War years. The diseased city Socrates attempts to purge ...
American Journal of Sociology, Vol. 30, No. 5 (Mar., 1925), pp. 513-533 (21 pages) As a sample of dialectic, The Republic is the foremost exhibit of what sociology is not. One section of the ...
As Plato himself confessed in later writings, a set of ideas that are idealistic at best and dangerous at worst. The oddly titled "Republic" describes an ant-like system with strict class structure, ...
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