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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.
List of contents
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
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By William H. F. Altman
