Blindness and reorientation : problems in Plato's Republic /

C.D.C. Reeve develops a powerful new account of the age-old argument over whether the just are happier than the unjust drawing from a new understanding of Plato's conception of philosophy.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Reeve, C. D. C., 1948-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Oxford University Press, 2013.
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Human wisdom
  • Alcibiades and the socratic craft of love
  • Cephalus, Odysseus, and the importance of experience
  • Glaucon's thrasymachean challenge
  • Souls, soul-parts, and persons
  • From beauty to goodness
  • Education and the acquisition of knowledge
  • Craft, dialectic, and the form of the good
  • The happiness of the philosopher-kings.