Plato's Republic, Books One & Two - Softcover

Plato

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ISBN 10: 1887250077 ISBN 13: 9781887250078

Publisher: Agora Pubns, 1997

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An unabridged oral dramatization of Plato's dialogues in modern English. Professional actors play the characters of Socrates, Cephalus, Glaucon, Thrasymachus, Adeimantus, Cleitophon, and Polemarchus. Regarded as Plato's most comprehensive dialogue, The Republic treats ethics, politics, epistemology, metaphysics, and the arts. The conversation begins with attempts to define the nature of justice, centering on Thrasymachus' explanation of justice as power. Then Plato's brothers, Glaucon and Adeimantus, propose a social contract theory of values, challenging Socrates to defend justice as intrinsically good. The investigation continues in an effort to imagine a society in which true justice can be manifested. Paperback text: 1-887250-07-7.

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Plato himself intended these works to be performed, not as the end but the beginning of the dialectical process that lies at the heart of philosophy. I have used these dramatizations in my own teaching in undergraduate, graduate, and executive education, and I find that they help us understand the ideas and concepts more quickly and deeply.

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Books One & Two You are so far off in your ideas about justice and injustice, Socrates, you don't even know that justice really serves the interest of the ruler, the one who is stronger, at the expense of the weaker. Justice is for those who are simpleminded. Book One presents a discussion of the nature of justice by Socrates, the aging Cephalus, his son Polemarchus, and the sophist Thrasymachus.

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