City And Soul In Plato's Republic
Ferrari, G. R. F.
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BOOK SUMMARY
Tracing a central theme of Plato's Republic, G. R. F. Ferrari reconsiders in this study the nature and purpose of the comparison between the structure of society and that of the individual soul. In four chapters, Ferrari examines the personalities and soc
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Tracing a central theme of Plato's Republic, G. R. F. Ferrari reconsiders in this study the nature and purpose of the comparison between the structure of society and that of the individual soul. In four chapters, Ferrari examines the personalities and social status of the brothers Glaucon and Adeimantus, Plato's notion of justice, coherence in Plato's description of the decline of states, and the tyrant and the philosopher king--a pair who, in their different ways, break with the terms of the city-soul analogy. In addition to acknowledging familiar themes in the interpretation of the Republic--the sincerity of its utopianism, the justice of the philosopher's return to the Cave--Ferrari provocatively engages secondary literature by Leo Strauss, Bernard Williams, and Jonathan Lear. With admirable clarity and insight, Ferrari conveys the relation between the city and the soul and the choice between tyranny and philosophy. City and Soul in Plato's Republic will be of value to students of classics, philosophy, and political theory alike.
AUTHOR BIO
G. R. F. Ferrari is professor of classics at the University of California, Berkeley, the author of Listening to Cicadas: A Study of Plato's Phaedrus, and the editor of the Cambridge Companion to Plato's Republic.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Preface
Chapter 1. The Brothers
1. The house of Cephalus
2. The values of a gentleman
3. Why govern?
4. A real man
5. The values of a philosopher
Sources and Scholarly Contexts for Chapter 1
Chapter 2. City and Soul: Misunderstandings
1. A fork in the road
2. Williams' challenge
3. Lear's dilemma
Sources and Scholarly Contexts for Chapter 2
Chapter 3. City and Soul: A Metaphorical Understanding
1. A proportional metaphor
2. Timocracy, oligarchy, democracy
3. Why metaphors matter
Sources and Scholarly Contexts for Chapter 3
Chapter 4. Tyrant and King
1. An asymmetry
2. The tyrant
3. The philosopher-king
4. The city and man
Sources and Scholarly Contexts for Chapter 4
References
Index locorum
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MORE BOOK INFO
ISBN: 0226244377
ISBN(13-digit): 9780226244372
Copyright: 2005
Dewey Decimal: 321/.07
Library of Congress: 2005043720
Book Publisher: Univ of Chicago Pr
Language: ENG
No. of Pages: 130
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