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Plato, often cited as a founding father of Western philosophy, set out ideas in the Republic regarding the nature of justice, order, and the character of the just individual, that endure into the modern day. The Routledge Guidebook to Platos Republic introduces the major themes in Platos great book and acts as a companion for reading the work, examining:
- the context of Platos work and the background to his writing
- each separate part of the text in relation to its goals, meanings and impact
- the reception the book received when first seen by the world
- the relevance of Platos work to modern philosophy, its legacy and influence.
With further reading included throughout, this text follows Platos original work closely, making it essential reading for all students of philosophy, and all those wishing to get to grips with this classic work.
Nickolas Pappas is Professor of Philosophy at the City College and Graduate Center of the City University of New York, where he regularly teaches courses on Platos philosophy.
The Routledge Guides to the Great Books provide ideal introductions to the work of the most brilliant thinkers of all time, from Aristotle to Marx and Newton to Wollstonecraft. At the core of each Guidebook is a detailed examination of the central ideas and arguments expounded in the great book. This is bookended by an opening discussion of the context within which the work was written and a closing look at the lasting significance of the text. The Routledge Guides to the Great Books therefore provide students everywhere with complete introductions to the most important, influential and innovative books of all time.
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Aristotles Nicomachean Ethics Gerard J. Hughes
Hegels Phenomenology of Spirit Robert Stern
Heideggers Being and Time Stephen Mulhall
Lockes Essay Concerning Human Understanding E. J. Lowe
Platos Republic Nickolas Pappas
Wollstonecrafts A Vindication of the Rights of Woman Sandrine Bergs
Wittgensteins Philosophical Investigations Marie McGinn
Forthcoming:
De Beauvoirs The Second Sex Nancy Bauer
DescartesMeditations on First Philosophy Gary Hatfield
Galileos Dialogue Maurice A. Finocchiaro
HobbesLeviathan Glen Newey
Mills On Liberty Jonathan Riley
First published as Routledge Philosophy Guidebook to Plato
and the Republic 1995
Second edition published 2003
This edition published as The Routledge Guidebook to
Platos Republic 2013
by Routledge
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1995, 2003, 2013 Nickolas Pappas
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British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data
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Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data
Pappas, Nickolas, 1960
The Routledge guidebook to Platos Republic / Nickolas Pappas.
p. cm. (The Routledge guides to the great books)
Includes bibliographical references (p.).
1. Plato. Republic. I. Title.
JC71.P6P365 2013
321.07dc23
2012014793
ISBN: 978-0-415-66800-2 (hbk)
ISBN: 978-0-415-66801-9 (pbk)
ISBN: 978-0-203-09420-4 (ebk)
Typeset in Garamond
by Taylor & Francis Books
Polemarchus (331e335e)
Conclusion (587c592b)
13 The afterlife of the Republic
The past is a foreign country, wrote a British novelist, L. P. Hartley: they do things differently there.
The greatest books in the canon of the humanities and sciences can be foreign territory, too. This series of guidebooks is a set of excursions written by expert guides who know how to make such places become more familiar.
All the books covered in this series, however long ago they were written, have much to say to us now, or help to explain the ways in which we have come to think about the world. Each volume is designed not only to describe a set of ideas, and how they developed, but also to evaluate them. This requires what one might call a bifocal approach. To engage fully with an author, one has to pretend that he or she is speaking to us; but to understand a texts meaning, it is often necessary to remember its original audience, too. It is all too easy to mistake the intentions of an old argument by treating it as a contemporary one.
The Routledge Guides to the Great Books are aimed at students in the broadest sense, not only those engaged in formal study. The intended audience of the series is all those who want to understand the books that have had the largest effects.
AJG
October 2012
In the first place Plato needs no introduction because everyone knows his name; but also in another respect, because his dialogues make such an effort to present and explain themselves to their readers. Plato motivates the questions his characters examine, explains the terms they use, and sketches the connections among disparate issues. Indeed the most gentlemanly thing about this most gentlemanly of writers may be his willingness to introduce himself, without a trace of pompousness, to utter strangers. This is why readers can still enter into the dialogues eighty generations close to thirty-five lifetimes after Plato wrote them.
Even so most readers prefer to have a guide at hand when they approach Platos works, especially one as large and difficult as the Republic . The dialogue form becomes an obstacle if you want to get an overview of the territory covered, to worry a single point in greater detail than the conversational setting allows, to isolate the premises of an argument and discover which ones are doing the work, or to find different ways of putting a single Platonic point and see what consequences follow from each restatement. The important issues in Platos long dialogues appear and vanish: Plato raises one point only to digress to another, or to attend to a detail of his argument. Eventually the originating issue comes up again, but transformed or disguised. The reader who feels lost among the turns of conversation may wish that Plato had also written a few pedestrian treatises covering the same ground as the dialogues, but more explicitly, and when it is necessary more tediously.
This book is designed as an accompaniment to Platos Republic for the benefit of any reader who has sometimes felt confused by its brilliant liveliness. For the most part I have stayed close to Platos own arrangement of his arguments. At each point I spell out his position, then stop to analyze, criticize, or expand on it. I depart from Platos expository order only in discussing Books 57, which I go through once with an eye to the political theory, then again looking only at the metaphysics. Thus most of this book is an exposition of the text, with pauses for further discussion. Later chapters refer back to relevant earlier sections, to facilitate the task of putting together different treatments of a subject into a unified whole.
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