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I | 327a-54c | Argument with Cephalus, Polemarchus & Thrasymachus |
II | 357a-68b | Challenge to Socrates |
II | 368c-76d | Initial founding of good city; division of labour |
II-III | 376d-402c | Early education of Guardians; censorship of poetry |
III-IV | 402c-27c | Upbringing of the Guardians, inc. physical regimen |
IV | 427d-34c | Account of virtues, inc. justice |
IV | 434d-44e | Division of individual soul (psyche) |
V | 449a-72e | Prescriptions for the Guardians, inc. family life and war |
V-VI | 473a-504d | Rule of philosophers; true philosophers distinguished from lovers of sights and sophists |
VI | 504e-11e | The Form of the Good: the Sun and Divided Line |
VII | 514a-21c | The Cave |
VII | 521c-41b | Education of the Guardians |
VIII-IX | 543a-76b | Deviant constitutions (timarchy, oligarchy, democracy, tyranny) and corresponding men |
IX | 576b-92b | Comparing the happiness of just and unjust men |
X | 595a-608a | Exile of imitative poetry |
X | 608b-21d | Immortality of the soul and afterlife rewards |
Saturday, March 28, 2009
Map of Plato's Republic
I'm currently trying to write a lecture on Plato's Republic. Since the (later) division of the work into ten books isn't particularly helpful, I came up with this map - thought I'd post it here for reference, in case anyone else finds it useful.
Labels:
advice,
philosophy,
plato
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