Overview

Plato's 'Republic' constructs an ideal city composed of three parts, parallel to the soul's reason, appetites, and fighting spirit. But confusion and controversy have long surrounded this three-way division and especially the prominent role it assigns to angry and competitive spirit. In Plato's Three-fold City and Soul, Joshua I. Weinstein argues that, for Plato, determination and fortitude are not just expressions of our passionate or emotional natures, but also play an essential role in the rational agency of persons and polities. In the Republic's account, human life requires spirited courage as much as reasoned thought and nutritious food. The discussion ranges over Plato's explication of the logical and metaphysical foundations of justice and injustice, the failures of incomplete and dysfunctional cities, and the productive synergy of our tendencies and capacities that becomes fully evident only in the justice of a self-sufficient political community.

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Author:   Joshua I. Weinstein
Publisher:   Cambridge University Press
Imprint:   Cambridge University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.60cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.408kg
ISBN:  

9781316621332

ISBN 10:   1316621332
Pages:   300
Publication Date:   17 December 2020
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand  
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Table of Contents

Acknowledgements; Introduction; Part I. Injustice as opposition of characters: 1. Opposition yields bipartition; 2. The argument from character; 3. Opposition of characters; 4. Interim conclusions; Part II. Justice as Function in City and Soul: 5. Preliminaries and foreshadowing; 6. The city seeks self-sufficiency; 7. Economics, technê and the market; 8. Luxury and art; 9. War; 10. The guards; 11. Language, education and reason; 12. Philosopher-kings; 13. Justice as threefold function in the soul; Part III. Thumos and Control through Time: 14. Preventing indulgence; 15. Thumotic work; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.

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'... Weinstein presents an elegant and coherent argument that salvages the Republic from age-old interpretations that charge it with structural flaws.' Orestis Karatzoglo, Religious Studies Review

Author Information

Joshua I. Weinstein is a Senior Fellow at the Herzl Institute in Jerusalem.

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