In this book a distinguished philosopher offers a comprehensive interpretation of Plato’s most controversial dialogue. Treating the Republic as a unity and focusing on the dramatic form as the presentation of the argument, Stanley Rosen challenges earlier analyses of the Republic (including the ironic reading of Leo Strauss and his disciples) and argues that the key to understa...
In this book a distinguished philosopher offers a comprehensive interpretation of Plato’s most controversial dialogue. Treating the Republic as a unity and focusing on the dramatic form as the presentation of the argument, Stanley Rosen challenges earlier analyses of the Republic (including the ironic reading of Leo Strauss and his disciples) and argues that the key to understanding the dialogue is to grasp the author’s intention in composing it, in particular whether Plato believed that the city constructed in the Republic is possible and desirable.
Rosen demonstrates that the fundamental principles underlying the just city are theoretically attractive but that the attempt to enact them in practice leads to conceptual incoherence and political disaster. The Republic, says Rosen, is a vivid illustration of the irreconcilability of philosophy and political practice.
The purpose of the Republic is not to found these disciplines, a task that is left to other dialogues, but rather to sustain in the minds of Glaucon and Adeimantus the possibility of a philosopher-king. In the Republic, Socrates is in the business not of training epistemologists or ontologists but of seeking recruits who will advance the entrance of philosophy into the city, not just as a covert invader but as an instrument for the transformation of the city, a transformation in which philosophy will play a decisive role
in the enrichment of human life. (查看原文)
This argument can be restated as follows. There is one set of true principles for living a just ,and therefore happy ,life .No deviations from these principles are justified .Therefore ,the natural inclination of human beings toward diversity must be restrained, at least in the guardian class (which includes philosophers and soldier-auxiliaries.) Poetry celebrates the diversity of the human soul ,but philosophy inculcates the correct principles of the best life (查看原文)
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0 有用 Q 2011-12-26 02:18:08
Rosen 思路最清晰且不瘋狂胡扯有的沒的好作品
0 有用 吃瓜漱石 2018-12-13 23:44:24
Accessible
0 有用 spenser 2021-05-16 18:08:17
详细是详细，但观点流于表面，有些地方感觉是为批评而批评
0 有用 Blue Jaguar 2013-11-23 20:25:42
A very illuminating book from a renowned scholar who reads closely and takes Plato seriously.