Blindness and Reorientation - C.D.C. Reeve

Blindness and Reorientation

Problems in Plato's Republic

(Autor)

Buch | Hardcover
230 Seiten
2013
Oxford University Press Inc (Verlag)
978-0-19-993443-0 (ISBN)
108,45 inkl. MwSt
C. D. C. Reeve develops a powerful new account of the age-old argument over whether the just are happier than the unjust, drawing from a new understanding of Plato's conception of philosophy.
Are the just happier than the unjust? In Plato' s Republic, Thrasymachus argues that they aren't, that justice is simply the advantage of the stronger. Though Socrates apparently refutes him, Plato's brothers, Glaucon and Adeimantus, take up his argument anew, challenging Socrates to show them that justice really does better further happiness than injustice.

The nature of this renewed challenge and the reason for it are hotly debated problems. Equally problematic is the question of whether Socrates succeeds in meeting the challenge in the crucial case of the philosopher-kings, whom he claims are happiest of all. Central to his attempt is a complex tripartite psychology and the yet more complex the metaphysics and epistemology of transcendent Platonic forms. But just how these are to be understood or how knowledge of such forms could help the philosopher-kings with the practical business of governing a city also remain deeply problematic issues.

Beginning with a discussion of Socrates in the Apology, and his portrait by Alcibiades in the Symposium, and proceeding to topics more directly within the Republic itself, Blindness and Reorientation develops not just powerful new solutions to these problems, but a new understanding of Plato's conception of philosophy, its relationship to craft-knowledge, and the roles of dialectic and experience within it. Written in a clear and vivid style, C. D. C. Reeve's new book will be accessible to any committed reader of Plato.

C. D. C. Reeve is Delta Kappa Epsilon Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He works primarily on Plato and Aristotle, but is interested in philosophy generally and has published on film and on the philosophy of sex and love.

Introduction ; Acknowledgments ; Abbreviations ; Chapter 1: Human Wisdom ; Chapter 2: Alcibiades and the Socratic Craft of Love ; Chapter 3: Cephalus, Odysseus, and the Importance of Experience ; Chapter 4: Glaucon's Thrasymachean Challenge ; Chapter 5: Souls, Soul-Parts, and Persons ; Chapter 6: Beauty and Goodness, Politics and Genitals ; Chapter 7: Education and the Acquisition of Knowledge ; Chapter 8: Craft, Dialectic, and the Form of the Good ; Chapter 9: The Happiness of the Philosopher-Kings

Verlagsort New York
Sprache englisch
Maße 236 x 163 mm
Gewicht 474 g
Themenwelt Geschichte Allgemeine Geschichte Altertum / Antike
Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Ethik
Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Philosophie Altertum / Antike
ISBN-10 0-19-993443-6 / 0199934436
ISBN-13 978-0-19-993443-0 / 9780199934430
Zustand Neuware
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