Plato's Fable: On the Mortal Condition in Shadowy TimesPrinceton University Press, 2009 M01 10 - 224 pages This book is an exploration of Plato's Republic that bypasses arcane scholarly debates. Plato's Fable provides refreshing insight into what, in Plato's view, is the central problem of life: the mortal propensity to adopt defective ways of answering the question of how to live well. |
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... Philosopher 59 The Hunt for the Good 68 The Decline toward Tyranny 75 Timocracy 79 Oligarchy 82 Democracy 89 Tyranny 99 The Prisoner's Dilemma 111 Envy 113 Sadomasochism 114 Rights and the Relativity of All Things 115 Averting Ruptures.
... philosopher) that is higher still, and confuses participating in a dia- logue “across the ages”—and so with the only ... philosopher's task is not to hand down a luminous and unspeakable “knowledge of the Good”—Socrates makes light of ...
... the recently published: Platonis, Rempublicam, edited by S. R. Slings (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003), in the Oxford Classical Texts series. f. PLATO'S FABLE Chapter 1 INTRODUCTION f Unless philosophers become kings.
On the Mortal Condition in Shadowy Times Joshua Mitchell. PLATO'S FABLE Chapter 1 INTRODUCTION f Unless philosophers become kings of our.
On the Mortal Condition in Shadowy Times Joshua Mitchell. Chapter. 1. INTRODUCTION. f. Unless philosophers become kings of our cities or unless those who now are kings and rulers become true philosophers, so that political power and ...
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