Plato's Republic : an introduction / Sean Sayers.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Sayers, Sean
Language:English
Published: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [1999], ©1999.
Subjects:
Plato. > Republic.
Physical Description:x, 178 pages ; 22 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Plato and the Republic
  • The challenge to Socrates (I.327a-II.367e)
  • Basic principles of social life and human nature (II.367e-376c)
  • Education and the life of the guardians (II.376c-IV.427e)
  • Communism and the individual (III.415d-IV.427c)
  • Justice in society (IV.427d-434d)
  • Justice in the individual (IV.434d-V.449a)
  • Women and the family (V.449a-V.471c)
  • Philosophy and society (V.471c-VI.502c)
  • The theory of forms
  • The line, the cave and higher education (VI.509d-VII.541b)
  • The reply to the Sophists (VIII.543a-IX.592b)
  • The quarrel between philosophy and poetry (X.595a-608b)
  • The rewards of justice (X.608c-621d).