Necessity and Philosophy in Plato''s Republic

Necessity and Philosophy in Plato's Republic offers an interpretation of the concept of necessity in what is perhaps Plato's most read dialogue. The book argues that to read the Republic through the lens of necessity is to reimagine what this pervasive concept might mean for us and for the limits of human reason.

List of contents

Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter 1: Philosophical Nature: Natural Necessity
Chapter 2: The Necessity of the Greatest Study: The Good
Chapter 3: Child of the Good: on Light and Desire
Chapter 4: Necessity in the Intelligible Region of the Divided Line
Chapter 5: Necessity in the Cave
Chapter 6: Necessity and the Highest Studies
Chapter 7: Necessity and the Song itself: Dialectic
Chapter 8: On Bastards and Orphans
Chapter 9: Necessity and Democracy
Chapter 10: The Spindle of Necessity
Bibliography

About the author

By Russell Winslow

Product details

• Authors: Russell Winslow, Winslow Russell
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.08.2024
• EAN: 9781666958577
• ISBN: 978-1-66695-857-7
• No. of pages: 264
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: antiquity to present day; Ancient Greece, Philosophy, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Translating & Interpreting, PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / Ancient & Classical, PHILOSOPHY / Movements / General, Translation & interpretation, Topics in philosophy, Ancient (Classical) Greek, Ancient Greek and Roman philosophy, Western philosophy: Ancient, to c 500, Translation and interpretation