Plato's city-soul analogy: the slow train to ordinary virtue

In Sharon M. Meagher, Samantha Noll & Joseph S. Biehl (eds.), The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of the City. New York: Routledge. pp. 21-31 (2019)
  Copy   BIBTEX

Abstract

Plato's city-soul analogy underwrites his overarching argument in the Philebus. I sketch the main lines of the analogy, and then defend it against two prominent objections.

Categories

Keywords

Reprint years

Links

PhilArchive

External links

  • This entry has no external links. Add one.
Setup an account with your affiliations in order to access resources via your University's proxy server

Through your library

My notes

Similar books and articles

The psychology of politics: the city-soul analogy in Plato's Republic.I. Evrigenis - 2002 - History of Political Thought 23 (4):590-610.
The Psychology of Politics: The City-Soul in Plato's Republic.Ioannis D. Evrigenis - 2005 - History of Political Thought 23 (4):49-59.
Internalization and the Philosophers’ Best Interest in Plato’s Republic.Jada Twedt Strabbing - 2018 - Apeiron 51 (2):147-170.
Plato's analogy of soul and state.Nicholas D. Smith - 1999 - The Journal of Ethics 3 (1):31-49.
Platonic Provocations: Reflections on the Soul and the Good in the Republic.Mitchell Miller - 1985 - In Dominic J. O'Meara (ed.), Platonic Investigations. Catholic University of Amer Press. pp. 163-193.
The Analogy of City and Soul in Plato's Republic.Bernard Williams - 1999 - In Gail Fine (ed.), Plato 2: Ethics, Politics, Religion, and the Soul. Oxford University Press. pp. 255-264.
Departed Souls? Tripartition at the Close of Plato’s Republic.Nathan Bauer - 2017 - History of Philosophy & Logical Analysis 20 (1):139-157.
City and soul in Plato's Republic.G. R. F. Ferrari - 2003 - Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Plato on Injustice in Republic Book I.Yuji Kurihara - 2008 - Proceedings of the Xxii World Congress of Philosophy 2:133-139.
City and Soul in Plato and Alfarabi: An Explanation for the Differences Between Plato’s and Alfarabi’s Theory of City in Terms of Their Distinct Psychology.Ishraq Ali & Mingli Qin - 2020 - Axiomathes 30 (1):91-105.
Who was "Plato"?: Soul, city and analogy.Miquel Seguró Mendelewicz - 2008 - Universitas Philosophica 25 (51).
The City-State of the Soul: Constituting the Self in Plato's Republic.Kevin Crotty - 2016 - Lanham: Lexington Books.
The City-State of the Soul: Constituting the Self in Plato’s Republic.Kevin Crotty - 2016 - Lanham: Lexington Books.
SEVEN. The Analogy of City and Soul in Plato’s Republic.BernardHG Williams - 2006 - In Bernard Williams (ed.), The Sense of the Past: Essays in the History of Philosophy. Princeton: Princeton University Press. pp. 108-117.
To See a City Come into Being in Speech: Genus and Analogy in Plato’s Republic.Steven Barmore - 2018 - Studia Gilsoniana 7 (2):159-179.

Analytics

Added to PP
2020-03-27

Downloads
2,050 (#4,148)

6 months
381 (#4,671)

Historical graph of downloads
How can I increase my downloads?

Author's Profile

Nathan Nicol
Washington State University

Citations of this work

No citations found.

Add more citations

References found in this work

No references found.

Add more references