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ARRUZZA, Cinzia. A Wolf in the City: Tyranny and the Tyrant in Plato's Republic. New York: Oxford University Press, 2019. 296 pp. Cloth, $74.00; ebook, $72.99--In this clearly argued work, [...]

The Rhetoric of Plato's Republic. By JAMES L. KASTELY. Chicago & London: The University of Chicago Press, 2015. Pp. xviii + 262. Hardcover, $35.00. ISBN 978-0-226-27862-9. While acknowledging that the [...]

HOWLAND, Jacob. Glaucon's Fate: History, Myth, and Character in Plato's Republic. Philadelphia: Paul Dry Books, 2018. 295 pp. Paper, $29.95--In his second manuscript on Plato's Republic, Jacob Howland rereads the [...]

Claudia Baracchi. Of Myth, Life and War in Plato's Republic. Bloomington: Indiana UP, 2002. 264 pp. $24.95 Plato's Republic, written ca. 340 BC, is the seminal treatise for Utopian thought. [...]

SHERMAN, Daniel. Soul, World and Idea: An Interpretation of Plato's Republic and Phaedo. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2013. viii-i- 410 pp. Cloth, $109.99--When philosophers return from contemplating the Forms, Socrates [...]

A standard objection to Platonism is that its teaching about the good denigrates particular goods. So, for instance, Martha Nussbaum argues that Plato's notion of the good devalues human goods. [...]

During the fall semester of 1995, I taught Plato's Republic to a class of freshmen. The next spring, I worked through it with graduate students. These autobiographical details are worth [...]

McCOY, Marina Berzins. Image and Argument in Plato's Republic. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2020. viii + 355 pp. Cloth, $95.00--This major study of the Republic combines traditional [...]

FRANK, Jill. Poetic Justice: Rereading Plato's Republic. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press. 2018. xi + 251 pp. Cloth, $90.00; paper, $30.00--Jill Frank's Poetic Justice makes an important contribution to [...]

ROSEN, Stanley. Plato's Republic: A Study. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2005. viii + 423 pp. Cloth, $45.00--As Stanley Rosen himself declares in the preface, his study of the Republic [...]

CROTTY, Kevin M. The City-State of the Soul: Constituting the Self in Plato's Republic. Lanham, Md.: Lexington Books, 2016. xvi + 264 pp. Cloth, $95.00--The City-State of the Soul contains [...]

BARACCHI, Claudia. Of Myth, Life, and War in Plato's Republic. Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 2002. ix + 249 pp. Cloth, $49.95; paper, $24.95.--This is the feast promised by Baracchi's contribution [...]

An argument on Plato's Republic that is not only a meditation by Plato on the proximity of philosophy and war and on the dangers of that proximity for philosophy and politics but is also Plato's reflection on the conduct, execution is presented.

I argue that Plato's use of thought experiments anticipate many of the themes discussed by Thomas S. Kuhn's classic essay, 'A Function for Thought Experiments.' Kuhn's concern is that thought experiments satisfy the condition of verisimilitude. That is, thought experiments must not be conducted merely to alter the conceptual apparatus of the scientist regarding the phenomenon explored, but rather to alter the scientist's conceptual apparatus for the sake of altering his actions (i.e., practical rationality). Plato, too, is quite concerned with getting interlocutors to appreciate that theory not be separated from practice, and that theory is necessary for the process of effective decision making. Each of the interlocutors presented in the Republic, Apology and Alcibiades Minor are confronted with a thought experiment that is designed to effect how they choose to live. Although the three dialogues I discuss illustrate the Kuhnian admonishment against separating theory form practice, many other dialogues in the Platonic corpus echo Kuhn's concerns.

The essential requirement for the government of the ideal city is present in Plato's 'Republic' where the philosopher-kings rightly regard ruling as an intrinsic evil, as something not in their self-interest. A study explains that Plato's defense of justice in this case is seriously flawed and that, for almost all members of Plato's ideal polis, when justice is a matter of doing one's job, justice does not pay.

What is unthought in a thinker's thought is not a lack inherent in his thought.... The more original a thinking is, the richer will be what is unthought in it. [...]

Philosophy is often taken at its core to be an argumentative appeal to our own native capacity to judge the truth without bias. I claim in this paper that the very notion of unbiased truth represents a particular interest, viz., the interests of the political as such: the city. My thesis is that Socrates' city in speech in Book II of the Republic exposes the injustice concealed at the core of demonstrative philosophy, and on this basis he goes on to offer an account of philosophical education based on a notion of musical inheritance.

Heidegger's interpretation of the concluding myth of Plato's Republic, the myth of Er, is discussed. A remark by Socrates concerning the saving of the story is highlighted.

An analysis of Plato's conception of moral knowledge in dialogues of his work Republic in which the analogy between moral and mathematical knowledge is emphasized is presented. Plato has ultimately embraced a form of moral institutionalism in the Republic in an effort to defend the objectivity of morality against worries about the cogency of the craft analogy, wherein Socrates has maintained that crafts are defined by their distinctive final ends.

From the care Plato takes in describing the excellence of the doctor in book 3 to the characterization of various pathological elements in the regimes he describes in book 8, the Republic teems with references to medical terms and concepts. The following investigates the breadth of the influence of medicine on the Republic. I argue that a medical vocabulary proves indispensable to indicating the relationship between philosophy and politics that the Republic envisages. In order to do so, this paper examines the confluence of medicine and metaphysics revealed by a comparison between the discussion of the divided line and ancient characterizations of diagnosis. I then conclude with a reading of the Glaucus image in book 10 that emphasizes its self-diagnostic character.

The structure of the city mediates between the happiness of the individual and the happiness of the city in Plato's 'Republic.' Topics discussed include happiness and well-being, holism, the statue analogy and the happiness of the guardians, static versus dynamic analysis, and the return to the cave.