City and soul in Plato's Republic /
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Chicago :
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2005.
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Table of Contents:
- Preface
- Chapter 1. The brothers
- 1. The house of Cephalus
- 2. The values of a gentleman
- 3. Why govern?
- 4. A real man
- 5. The values of a philosopher
- Sources and scholarly contexts for chapter 1
- Chapter 2. City and soul : misunderstandings
- 1. A fork in the road
- 2. Williams' challenge
- 3. Lear's dilemma
- Sources and scholarly contexts for chapter 2
- Chapter 3. City and soul : a metaphorical understanding
- 1. A proportional metaphor
- 2. Timocracy, oligarchy, democracy
- 3. Why metaphors matter
- Sources and scholarly contexts for chapter 3
- Chapter 4. Tyrant and king
- 1. An asymmetry
- 2. The tyrant
- 3. The philosopher-king 4. The city and man
- Sources and scholarly contexts for chapter 4
- References
- Index locorum