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Plato: The Republic (Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought) by Plato, G. R. F. Ferrari, Tom Griffith

Plato: The Republic (Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought) Plato, G. R. F. Ferrari, Tom Griffith ebook
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ISBN: 052148443X, 9780521484435
Page: 436
Format: pdf

In addition to Tom Griffith's vivid, dignified and accurate rendition of Plato's text, this edition is suitable for students at all levels. Plato's writings have been published in several fashions; this has led to several conventions regarding the naming and referencing of Plato's texts. This is a completely new translation of one of the great works of Western political thought. Socrates is again the main character in the Republic, although this work is less a dialogue than a long discussion by Socrates of justice and what it means to the individual and the city-state. This brotherhood occupied a prominent station in the history of science and philosophy in Islam due to the wide reception and assimilation of their monumental encyclopaedia, the Rasa'il Ikhwan al-Safa' (Epistles of the Brethren of Purity). 348 B.C.E.) was a Greek philosopher and is perhaps the most famous and influential thinker in the history of Western thought. This makes the reader's interpretation of Plato's texts more ambiguous and problematic, for the form of dialogue distances both Plato (as author) and the given reader from the ideas that are being discussed in the text. This is because art was held to be an imitation of nature or reality, and Plato and Aristotle's theories on nature and reality were widely different, as were their ideas on the mechanism of imitation. Governed state in the soul of each individual” (Republic, X, p52), that is, causing a harmful effect upon the individual, which thus corrupts the state if practised on a wide scale (the political state being the prime concern of Plato). Another development is Plato's increased awareness of temporality and history and their relations to politics and political theory. Outlines of the History of Greek Philosophy. Cherry, Plato, Aristotle, and the Purpose of Politics, Cambridge University Press, 2012, 246pp., 70.53€ (hbk), ISBN 9781107021679. He was a student of Socrates and a teacher of Aristotle. And scientific contents of the Rasa'il and their classification, as well as investigating the authorship and dating of this corpus, and the impact that the Ikhwan's intellectual tradition exercised in the unfolding of the history of ideas in Islam.