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The Blackwell Guide to Plato's RepublicISBN: 978-1-4051-1564-3
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304 pages
January 2006, ©2006, Wiley-Blackwell
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Notes on Contributors vii
Editor's Introduction 1
1 The Literary and Philosophical Style of the Republic 7
Christopher Rowe
2 Allegory and Myth in Plato's Republic 25
Jonathan Lear
3 Socrates' Refutation of Thrasymachus 44
Rachel Barney
4 Plato's Challenge: the Case against Justice in Republic II 63
Christopher Shields
5 The Gods and Piety of Plato's Republic 84
Mark L. McPherran
6 Plato on Learning to Love Beauty 104
Gabriel Richardson Lear
7 Methods of Reasoning about Justice in Plato's Republic 125
Gerasimos Santas
8 The Analysis of the Soul in Plato's Republic 146
Hendrik Lorenz
9 The Divided Soul and the Desire for Good in Plato's Republic 166
Mariana Anagnostopoulos
10 Plato and the Ship of State 189
David Keyt
11 Knowledge, Recollection, and the Forms in Republic VII 214
Michael T. Ferejohn
12 The Forms in the Republic 234
Terry Penner
13 Plato's Defense of Justice in the Republic 263
Rachel G. K. Singpurwalla
General Bibliography 283
Index 285