By D.J. Sheppard
ISBN-10: 0748627782
ISBN-13: 9780748627783
ISBN-10: 0748631682
ISBN-13: 9780748631681
Every little thing you must learn about Plato's Republic in a single quantity. This publication will introduce scholars to Plato's Republic and facilitate the reader's personal discussion with it, with out supplying an interpretation or a reaction at the reader's behalf. along a passage-by-passage remark at the textual content, D.J. Sheppard highlights a number of the primary interpretative demanding situations confronted via the reader and surveys more than a few attainable responses to them. Designed to be learn along Plato's textual content, this method might be beneficial for college students and teachers alike.
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It certainly alters the terms of the debate. Up to this point Socrates has set his sights on an abstract definition of justice that transcends particular instances of it. By contrast, Thrasymachus offers a sociological account of justice as simply that which is prescribed by the law. If, in one jurisdiction, the ruling power deems it lawful for humans to eat animals, then it is just. If, in another, it is deemed unlawful, then in that jurisdiction it is unjust. Justice is a sociological issue concerning the exercise of political power.
In the discussion A Guide to the Text 29 with Polemarchus, it is Socrates’ role that becomes the focus of critical attention. Most commentators agree that the portrait of the son is of an unreflective and complacent individual who only accepts his father’s conception of justice because he is a slave to convention. The question is whether Socrates’ arguments are substantial, or whether it is simply Polemarchus’ philosophical inexperience that enables Socrates to prevail. If it is the latter, then Plato might be making an important point about the limitations of Socrates’ argumentative method both in this discussion and in Book I as a whole.
Sowing the seeds of scepticism about traditional values without providing a viable alternative to them’ (Reeve 2006: 8). We shall return to possible explanations of Plato’s decision to portray Socrates’ argumentative practice in a negative light in due course. Socrates’ third argument (334c–335b) follows Polemarchus’ stated determination to maintain the definition of justice as ‘treating your friends well and your enemies badly’ (334b). Socrates asks whether Polemarchus means by friends those whom an individual ‘believes to be good, or those who really are good, even if he does not realise it,’ and likewise with enemies (334c).
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