- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Preface
- Abbreviations
- 1 Plato, Socrates, and the Dialogues
- 2 Socrates' Method
- 3 Socrates' Arguments About the Virtues
- 4 Socrates: From Happiness to Virtue
- 5 Difficulties for Socrates
- 6 The Protagoras
- 7 The Argument of The Gorgias
- 8 Implications of The Gorgias
- 9 Socratic Method and Socratic Ethics: The Meno
- 10 The Theory of Forms
- 11 Republic I
- 12 Republic II: Objections to Justice
- 13 Republic IV: The Division of the Soul
- 14 Republic IV: The Virtues
- 15 Republic IV: Justice and Happiness
- 16 Republic V–VII
- 17 Republic VIII–IX on Justice
- 18 Platonic Love
- 19 Pleasure, Intelligence, and the Good
- 20 Reason and Virtue
- References
- Index Locorum
- Index Nominum
- General Index
Republic I
Republic I
- Chapter:
- (p.169) 11 Republic I
- Source:
- Plato's Ethics
- Author(s):
Terence Irwin (Contributor Webpage)
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
Chapter 11 considers book I of the Republic and mainly treats the role book I plays in the dialogue. It is argued that book I is written to illustrate how the Socrates of the early dialogues would have tried to find a definition of justice. Hence, the goal of this book appears to show the limits of a certain way of searching for definitions and to dismiss it. The role of the other characters of book I--Cephalus, Polemarchus, and Thrasymachus-- is relevant in order to describe fully the aporetic character of this approach.
Keywords: Aporetic, Cephalus, Definition, Plato, Justice, Polemarchus, Republic, Socrates, Thrasymachus
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- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Preface
- Abbreviations
- 1 Plato, Socrates, and the Dialogues
- 2 Socrates' Method
- 3 Socrates' Arguments About the Virtues
- 4 Socrates: From Happiness to Virtue
- 5 Difficulties for Socrates
- 6 The Protagoras
- 7 The Argument of The Gorgias
- 8 Implications of The Gorgias
- 9 Socratic Method and Socratic Ethics: The Meno
- 10 The Theory of Forms
- 11 Republic I
- 12 Republic II: Objections to Justice
- 13 Republic IV: The Division of the Soul
- 14 Republic IV: The Virtues
- 15 Republic IV: Justice and Happiness
- 16 Republic V–VII
- 17 Republic VIII–IX on Justice
- 18 Platonic Love
- 19 Pleasure, Intelligence, and the Good
- 20 Reason and Virtue
- References
- Index Locorum
- Index Nominum
- General Index