Summoning Knowledge in Plato's Republic

Oxford University Press (2019)
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Abstract

Nicholas D. Smith considers an original interpretation of the Republic, presenting it as a work about knowledge and education. Smith pays particular attention to Plato's use of images as representations of higher realities in education, as well as the power of knowledge in the Republic.

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