Research Catalog

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Description

1. viii, 292 pages; 24 cm

Summary

1. Plato's 'Republic' constructs an ideal city composed of three parts, parallel to the soul's reason, appetites, and fighting spirit. But confusion and controversy have long surrounded this three-way division and especially the prominent role it assigns to angry and competitive spirit. In 'Plato's Threefold City and Soul', Joshua I. Weinstein argues that, for Plato, determination and fortitude are not just expressions of our passionate or emotional natures, but also play an essential role in the rational agency of persons and polities. In the Republic's account, human life requires spirited courage as much as reasoned thought and nutritious food. The discussion ranges over Plato's explication of the logical and metaphysical foundations of justice and injustice, the failures of incomplete and dysfunctional cities, and the productive synergy of our tendencies and capacities that becomes fully evident only in the justice of a self-sufficient political community.

Subject

1. Plato > Criticism and interpretation
2. Plato
3. Republic (Plato)
4. Place (Philosophy)

Call number

1. JFE 19-4073

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references (pages 274-282) and indexes.

Author

1. Weinstein, Joshua I., author.

Title

1. Plato's threefold city and soul / Joshua I. Weinstein.

Publisher

1. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2018.

Type of content

1. text

Type of medium

1. unmediated

Type of carrier

1. volume

Bibliography

1. Includes bibliographical references (pages 274-282) and indexes.

Other form:

1. Online version: Weinstein, Joshua I. Plato's three-old city and soul. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2018 1316767035 9781316767030 (OCoLC)1060523929

ISBN

1. 1107170168 (hardback)
2. 9781107170162 (hardback)

Research call number

1. JFE 19-4073