Beautiful City : : The Dialectical Character of Plato's "Republic" /

Beautiful City : : The Dialectical Character of Plato's "Republic" / / David Roochnik.

In this slim but elegantly written volume, Roochnik (philosophy, Boston Univ.) treats Plato's 'Republic' as a dialogue, which is to say that he is attentive to the fact that 'The Republic' develops and builds as a conversation might, with progressive revisions, qualification...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Backlist 2000-2013
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Roochnik, David,
Place / Publishing House:Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2018]
©2008
Year of Publication:2018
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (176 p.) :; 3 charts/graphs, 1 line drawing
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Prologue
  • CHAPTER ONE. The Arithmetical
  • I. TRIPARTITE CITY, TRIPARTITE SOUL
  • 2. “THE ONE, THE TWO, AND THE THREE”
  • 3. THE ARITHMETICAL CHARACTER OF KALLIPOLIS
  • CHAPTER TWO. Eros
  • I. INTIMATIONS OF EROS
  • 2. THE THREE WAVES
  • 3. KALLIPOLIS VERSUS THE REPUBLIC
  • CHAPTER THREE. Democracy, Psychology, Poetry
  • I. DEMOCRACY
  • 2. NARRATIVE PSYCHOLOGY
  • 3. PSYCHOLOGICAL NARRATIVE
  • APPENDIX. The Meaning of “Dialectical”
  • I. THE TECHNICAL MEANING OF “DIALECTIC”
  • 2. THE NONTECHNICAL MEANING OF “DIALECTIC”
  • 3· DIALECTIC IN THE REPUBLIC
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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