A Guide to Plato’s Republic [Book Review]

Review of Metaphysics 52 (3):723-724 (1999)
  Copy   BIBTEX

Abstract

This book is not an in-depth commentary on the Republic and so should not be read as such. Rather, it is by its author’s own account a short “interpretive guide” and “a general introduction to philosophy and political theory”. The Republic, as is known, consists of ten books. Book 1 serves as an introduction, as the character Socrates indicates later in book 2. There the problem of justice in all its complexity is outlined. The remaining nine books break up into three triads: books 2–4, books 5–7, and books 8–10. The five chapters of Rice’s book closely follow this fourfold division with two minor adjustments: Rice groups book 5 with books 2–4 and revisits book 8 in his concluding chapter.

Links

PhilArchive



    Upload a copy of this work     Papers currently archived: 93,590

External links

Setup an account with your affiliations in order to access resources via your University's proxy server

Through your library

Similar books and articles

A Guide to Plato’s Republic.Daryl H. Rice - 1997 - New York: Oxford University Press USA.
A guide to Plato's Republic.Daryl H. Rice - 1998 - New York: Oxford University Press.
A Guide to Plato’s Republic. [REVIEW]Gregory F. Weis - 1999 - Teaching Philosophy 22 (2):232-235.
A Guide to Plato’s Republic. [REVIEW]Gregory F. Weis - 1999 - Teaching Philosophy 22 (2):232-235.
A Guide to Plato’s Republic.Daryl H. Rice - 1998 - Utopian Studies 9 (2):304-307.
Cambridge Critical Guide to Plato’s Republic.M. McPherran (ed.) - 2010 - Cambridge University Press.
Commentary On Ausland.Eric Sanday - 2013 - Proceedings of the Boston Area Colloquium of Ancient Philosophy 28 (1):27-35.
Ring-Composition in Plato: the Case of Republic X.Rachel Barney - 2010 - In M. McPherran (ed.), Cambridge Critical Guide to Plato’s Republic. Cambridge University Press. pp. 32-51.
On Aristotle’s Physics 5. [REVIEW]Leo J. Elders - 1997 - Review of Metaphysics 51 (2):444-445.

Analytics

Added to PP
2012-03-18

Downloads
46 (#106,786)

6 months
4 (#1,635,958)

Historical graph of downloads
How can I increase my downloads?

Author's Profile

Patrick Goodin
Howard University

Citations of this work

No citations found.

Add more citations

References found in this work

No references found.

Add more references