The Republic of Plato / translated with introduction and notes by Francis MacDonald Cornford

Plato [author]; Cornford, Francis Macdonald [translator]

Edité par London ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1951

Very good copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Spine bands and panel edges slightly dust-toned and rubbed as with age. Remains particularly well-preserved overall. Physical description; xxix, 366 pages ; 21 cm. Notes; Includes bibliographical references and index. Translated from the Greek. Contents; I. Some current views of justice : Cephalus: justice as honesty in word and deed -- Polemarchus: justice as helping friends and harming enemies -- Thrasymachus: justice as the interest of the stronger -- Thrasymachus: is injustice more profitable than justice? -- II. Justice in the state and in the individual : The problem stated -- The rudiments of social organization -- The luxurious state -- The guardian's temperament -- Primary education of the guardians : Censorship of literature for school use ; The influence of dramatic recitation ; Musical accompaniment and metre ; The aim of education in poetry and music ; Physical training. Physicians and judges -- Selection of rulers: the guardians' manner of living -- The guardians' duties -- The virtues in the state -- The three parts of the soul -- The virtues in the individual -- The equality of women -- Abolition of the family for the guardians -- Usages of war -- III. The philosopher king : The paradox: philosophers must be kings -- Definition of the philosopher: the two worlds -- The philosopher's fitness to rule -- Why the philosophic nature is useless or corrupted in existing society -- A philosophic ruler is not an impossibility -- The good as the highest object of knowledge -- Four stages of cognition: the line -- The allegory of the cave -- Higher education: mathematics : Arithmetic ; Geometry ; Solid geometry ; Astronomy ; Harmonics. Dialectic -- Programme of studies -- IV. The decline of society and of the soul: comparison of the just and unjust lives : The fall of the ideal state: timocracy and the timocratic man. -- Oligarchy (plutocracy) and the oligarchic man -- Democracy and the democratic man -- Despotism and the despotic man -- The just and unjust lives compared in respect of happiness -- Justice, not injustice, is profitable -- V. The quarrel between philosophy and poetry : How representation in art is related to truth -- Dramatic poetry appeals to the emotions, not to the reason -- The effect of dramatic poetry on character -- VI. Immortality and the rewards of justice : A proof of immortality -- The rewards of justice in this life -- The rewards of justice after death: the myth of Er. Subjects; Plato. Plato Republic. Plato Philosophy. Political science ; Early works to 1800. Utopias ; Early works to 1800. Justice ; Early works to 1800. Utopias. Political science. 3 Kg. N° de réf. du vendeur 446058

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Titre : The Republic of Plato / translated with ...
Éditeur : London ; New York : Oxford University Press
Date d'édition : 1951
Reliure : Couverture rigide
Edition : Reprint.