Rereading Plato’s Republic

Mary Margaret McCabe, Simon Trépanier (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

520 Seiten

2025
Edinburgh University Press (Verlag)
978-1-3995-4683-6 (ISBN)

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Examines the subject matter of the Republic and the full internal responsion of its parts.

Plato’s Republic is the master’s masterpiece; but how to go about interpreting it is still disputed. Indeed, it may be a masterpiece just because how to understand it is fiercely controversial. This collection of 24 original essays by an international mix of junior and senior scholars reconsiders the Republic as a written text and rethinks its philosophical legacy. The volume seeks to explore how the Republic goes about doing philosophy with its reader without importing assumptions as to what counts as a philosophy and what does not, what should be kept and what discarded. The working assumption for uniting these different aspects is that 'Plato writes nothing in vain'. To that end, much can be learned by studying how its sections can take on different meanings between a first and subsequent re-reading.

Mary Margaret McCabe was Leventis Visiting Professor in Classics at the University of Edinburgh 2019, is Professor of Ancient Philosophy Emerita at King’s College London, and a Fellow of the British Academy. She was co-conspirator with Verity Harte on the Yale-KCL Republic project 2007-16. She is proudest of being the recipient of Harte and Woolf, Re-Reading Ancient Philosophy: Old Chestnuts and Sacred Cows (CUP 2017). She is the Chair of Trustees of Philosophy in Prison, www.philosophyinprison.com Simon Trépanier is Senior Lecturer in Classics at the University of Edinburgh. His specialties include early Greek philosophy (Empedocles in particular), Plato, literary papyrology, Epicureanism and Lucretius. Recurrent themes of interest are cosmology and physics, the relation of philosophy to literature and ancient society, and the place of religion within philosophical speculation.

List of Tables
Editors' Preface
Notes on Contributors

Introduction

Part I. Rereading

1. Cephalus, patêr tou logou.
Tad Brennan
2. Running before You Can’t Walk: Some Thoughts about Old Age and Epistemic Progress on Rereading the Republic
Saloni M. de Souza
3. Justice in Simpler Times
Timothy Clarke
4. Loving Learning: Plato’s Philosophical Dogs and the Education of the Guardians
Allison Piñeros Glasscock
5. Nature in Politics and Moral Psychology
Alex G. Long
6. From the Object to the Subject: Plato’s Version of the Principle of Non-Contradiction in Republic 4
Barbara M. Sattler
7. Dolphins and Dialectic
Raphael Woolf
8. The Cave before Plato
Simon Trépanier
9. Reflecting on Images in Plato’s Republic
Tamsin de Waal
10. A New Role for the Philosopher Rulers: Situating 519c-521d in Its Argumentative Context
Merrick Anderson
11. Dialectic in the Cave
Hugh Benson
12. Plato’s Neglected Critiques of Democratic Cities in Republic 8 and 9: Inside and Outside the Narrative of Representative Fathers and Sons
Melissa Lane
13. The Tyrant and the Failure of Philia: Rereading the Account of the Tyrannical Character
Margaret Hampson
14. Pain and Perspective in Republic 9
Katharine R. O’Reilly
15. ‘I can’t get no satisfaction’: Pleasure and Happiness in Plato's Republic
Joachim Aufderheide
16. Mimesis, Art and the Metaphysics of Appearances in Republic 10
Fiona Leigh
17. ‘Virtue has no master’
Ursula Coope

Part II. Images, Education and the Good

18. Imagery, Utopia and Plato’s Republic
Rachel Barney
19. Why the Rulers’ Mathematical Education?
Sarah Broadie
20. Glaucon, Gyges and the Good
Mary Margaret McCabe
21. The Good Reread: A Reply to MM
Christopher Rowe
22. Breaking the Frame: Justice and Politics Inside and Outside the Republic’s City
Verity Harte
23. Summing Up: ‘the dog that didn’t bark’
Brad Inwood

Bibliography
Index
Index locorum

Erscheinungsdatum	14.05.2025
Reihe/Serie	Edinburgh Leventis Studies
Zusatzinfo	5 black & white tables
Verlagsort	Edinburgh
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Ethik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Metaphysik / Ontologie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie Altertum / Antike
	Sozialwissenschaften
ISBN-10	1-3995-4683-X / 139954683X
ISBN-13	978-1-3995-4683-6 / 9781399546836
Zustand	Neuware