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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"Plato's Republic"”.

  1. What Freedom Needs: Democracy and Philosophy in Plato's Republic

    Plato's Republic is traditionally thought to present an anti-democratic position. However, I provide an interpretation that, instead, argues that the Republic defends democracy in an important sense. My thesis is that, although offering serious criticisms of democracy and condemning the democratic …

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  2. The Psychology of Plato's Republic: Taking Book 10 into Account

    … this dissertation. First, how much does <em>Republic </em>Book 10 contribute to the dialogue’s main argument? For centuries, commentators have found Book 10 to be a puzzling and disappointing conclusion to the dialogue. The second puzzle is the important and still much debated question of …

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  3. The Sophist In The Cave: Education Through Names In Plato's Republic

    … is often considered an isolated dialogue in Plato’s corpus, and the major theses of the Cratylus are often seen as disposable and problematic elements in Platonic thought. When one carefully compares this dialogue, however, to Plato’s comments elsewhere about rhetoric and dialectic, a set of …

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  4. UNA REPUBBLICA LETTERARIA DIGITALE

    … first part explores various forms of Literary Republics in Western literary and philosophical traditions. It examines how historical, philosophical, and technological transformations have shaped evolving ideas of intellectual community. The discussion begins with an analysis of the community of …

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  5. Poetry as epistemological inquiry : reading Bernstein reading Cavell reading Wittgenstein

    … the just society. It stands in the tradition of Plato's Republic while reclaiming the place of poetry in society or the role of poetic thinking for the human being as such. The concluding chapter "Redemptive Reading" takes reading itself as its subject. Bernstein's theory of reading, developed in …

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