Plato the Teacher by Altman, William H.F. -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Acknowledgements Preface to Plato the Teacher An Introduction to Plato’s Republic: Inside and Outside the Text 1 The First Words of Plato’s Πολιτεία

§1. ϰατέβην §2. χθές §3. είς Πειϱαια̑ §4. μετὰ Γλαύϰωνος §5. του̑ Άϱίστωνος

2 Challenges

§6. Cephalus and the Meaning of Life §7. Polemarchus Meets Appearance and Reality §8. Thrasymachus and the City of Good Men Only §9. Glaucon’s Challenge to Socrates §10. The Challenge of Adeimantus to Plato

3 The Shorter Way

§11. Introduction to Methodology §12. Methodology II: Hypotheses §13. Methodology III: Images §14. Looking Out for Number One §15. Making Friends with Thrasymachus

4 The Longer Way

§16. The Speech to the Guardians §17. Justice and the Good on the Divided Line §18. The Idea of the Good and Plato’s Theory of Forms §19. An Intellectual History of the Return §20. Whistling a Tune on the Way Down

5 The Firesticks

§21. 434d1-435a4 §22. Two Jobs for One Man: Beyond the Tripartite Soul §23. The Third Wave of Paradox §24. Plato’s Letters §25. Untimely Meditations on the Idea of Justice

6 Democracy and Education

§26. Genetic Fictions §27. The Equality of the Sexes §28. Higher Education: Why the Good is not the One §29. Reading Order Revisited §30. The Age of Heroes

7 Choices

§31. The Sewer of Romulus §32. The Perfectly Bearable Lightness of Being §33. Coming Up and Going Down §34. Plato the Imitator §35. Odysseus or Achilles?

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