William H. F. Altman

Plato the Teacher

The Crisis of the Republic

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Produktbeschreibung

The pedagogical technique of the playful Plato, especially his ability to create living discourses that directly address the student, is the subject of Plato the Teacher. "The crisis of the Republic" refers to the decisive moment in his central dialogue when philosopher-readers realize that Plato's is challenging them to choose justice by going back down into the dangerous Cave of political life for the sake of the greater Good, as both Socrates and Cicero did.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Globe Pequot Publishing Group Inc/Bloomsbury
• Seitenzahl: 512
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. Februar 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 32mm
• Gewicht: 887g
• ISBN-13: 9780739171387
• ISBN-10: 0739171380
• Artikelnr.: 34935142

Autorenporträt

By William H. F. Altman

Inhaltsangabe

An Introduction to Plato's Republic: Inside and Outside the Text 1 Part 1
The First Words of Plato's ???? te?/a Chapter 1: ?at?ß?? Chapter 2: ????
Chapter 3: µet? G?a?????? Chapter 4: µet? G?a?????? Chapter 5: t??
???st???? Part 2 Challenges Chapter 6: Cephalus and the Meaning of Life
Chapter 7: Polemarchus Meets Appearance and Reality Chapter 8: Thrasymachus
and the City of Good Men Only Chapter 9: Glaucon's Challenge to Socrates
Chapter 10: The Challenge of Adeimantus to Plato Part 3 The Shorter Way
Chapter 11: Introduction to Methodology Chapter 12: Methodology II:
Hypotheses Chapter 13: Methodology III: Images Chapter 14: Looking Out for
Number One Chapter 15: Making Friends with Thrasymachus Part 4 The Longer
Way Chapter 16: The Speech to the Guardians Chapter 17: Justice and the
Good on the Divided Line Chapter 18: The Idea of the Good and Plato's
Theory of Forms Chapter 19: An Intellectual History of the Return Chapter
20: Whistling a Tune on the Way Down Part 5 The Firesticks Chapter 21:
432d1-435a4 Chapter 22: Two Jobs for One Man: Beyond the Tripartite Soul
Chapter 23: The Third Wave of Paradox Chapter 24: Plato's Letters Chapter
25: Untimely Meditations on the Idea of Justice Part 6 Democracy and
Education Chapter 26: Genetic Fictions Chapter 27: The Equality of the
Sexes Chapter 28: Higher Education: Why the Good is not the One Chapter 29:
Reading Order Revisited Chapter 30: The Age of Heroes Part 7 Choices
Chapter 31: The Sewer of Romulus Chapter 32: The Perfectly Bearable
Lightness of Being Chapter 33: Coming Up and Going Down Chapter 34: Plato
the Imitator Chapter 35: Odysseus or Achilles? Bibliography Index locorum
Index About the Author