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Author Lycos, Kimon.

Title Plato on justice and power : reading Book I of Plato's Republic / Kimon Lycos.

Imprint Albany, N.Y. : State University of New York Press, c1987.

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 Axe Special Collections Reitz  888.4 P697reDl, 1987    ---  Lib Use Only
Description ix, 201 p. ; 23 cm.
Series SUNY series in philosophy
SUNY series in philosophy.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. 194-197) and index.
Contents Introduction: 'Turning the soul around' -- Part 1: Dramatic characterisation -- Old recipes about justice -- Thrasymachus on justice and power -- The function of 'thrasymachus' in Plato's text -- Part 2: The argument -- Defining justice -- Limits on the just -- Power, skill and ruling -- Excellence and the motivational structure of the just -- Socrates sketches the 'power' of justice -- Conclusion: the Socratic vision.
Subject Plato. Republic.
Justice.
ISBN 0887064167 (pbk.)
9780887064166 (pbk.)
0887064159
9780887064159

 
    
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