Blackwell Guide to Plato's Republic

Gerasimos Santas is Professor of Philosophy at the University of California, Irvine. His previous publications include Socrates (1979), Plato and Freud: Two Theories of Love (Blackwell, 1988), and Goodness and Justice: Plato, Aristotle and the Moderns (Blackwell, 2001).

• Notes on Contributors viiEditor's Introduction 11 The Literary and Philosophical Style of the Republic 7Christopher Rowe2 Allegory and Myth in Plato's Republic 25Jonathan Lear3 Socrates' Refutation of Thrasymachus 44Rachel Barney4 Plato's Challenge: the Case against Justice in Republic II 63Christopher Shields5 The Gods and Piety of Plato's Republic 84Mark L. McPherran6 Plato on Learning to Love Beauty 104Gabriel Richardson Lear7 Methods of Reasoning about Justice in Plato's Republic 125Gerasimos Santas8 The Analysis of the Soul in Plato's Republic 146Hendrik Lorenz9 The Divided Soul and the Desire for Good in Plato's Republic 166Mariana Anagnostopoulos10 Plato and the Ship of State 189David Keyt11 Knowledge, Recollection, and the Forms in Republic VII 214Michael T. Ferejohn12 The Forms in the Republic 234Terry Penner13 Plato's Defense of Justice in the Republic 263Rachel G. K. SingpurwallaGeneral Bibliography 283Index 285

"A judicious mix of new voices and more familiar ones, Santas' Guide is a terrific resource for students and teachers of Plato's masterwork. It should command a wide readership and be in every library." C. D. C. Reeve, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill This is a splendid collection of essays. The contributors are not content with rehashing old material but demonstrate how it is still possible to engage with the Republic in new and philosophically stimulating ways. It provides a first-rate guide both to the Republic itself and to some of the most exciting developments in its interpretation. R F Stalley, University of Glasgow "This is a valuable collection. We should be grateful to Gerasimos Santas, and to each of the contributors to this volume, for the new light they have shed on Plato's masterpiece." Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews