Rereading Plato’s Republic

Mary Margaret McCabe was Leventis Visiting Professor in Classics at the University of Edinburgh 2019, is Professor of Ancient Philosophy Emerita at King’s College London, and a Fellow of the British Academy. She was co-conspirator with Verity Harte on the Yale-KCL Republic project 2007-16. She is proudest of being the recipient of Harte and Woolf, Re-Reading Ancient Philosophy: Old Chestnuts and Sacred Cows (CUP 2017). She is the Chair of Trustees of Philosophy in Prison, www.philosophyinprison.com Simon Trépanier is Senior Lecturer in Classics at the University of Edinburgh. His specialties include early Greek philosophy (Empedocles in particular), Plato, literary papyrology, Epicureanism and Lucretius. Recurrent themes of interest are cosmology and physics, the relation of philosophy to literature and ancient society, and the place of religion within philosophical speculation.

• List of TablesEditors' PrefaceNotes on ContributorsIntroductionPart I. Rereading1. Cephalus, patêr tou logou.Tad Brennan2. Running before You Can’t Walk: Some Thoughts about Old Age and Epistemic Progress on Rereading the RepublicSaloni M. de Souza3. Justice in Simpler TimesTimothy Clarke4. Loving Learning: Plato’s Philosophical Dogs and the Education of the GuardiansAllison Piñeros Glasscock5. Nature in Politics and Moral PsychologyAlex G. Long6. From the Object to the Subject: Plato’s Version of the Principle of Non-Contradiction in Republic 4Barbara M. Sattler7. Dolphins and DialecticRaphael Woolf8. The Cave before PlatoSimon Trépanier9. Reflecting on Images in Plato’s RepublicTamsin de Waal10. A New Role for the Philosopher Rulers: Situating 519c-521d in Its Argumentative ContextMerrick Anderson 11. Dialectic in the CaveHugh Benson 12. Plato’s Neglected Critiques of Democratic Cities in Republic 8 and 9: Inside and Outside the Narrative of Representative Fathers and SonsMelissa Lane 13. The Tyrant and the Failure of Philia: Rereading the Account of the Tyrannical CharacterMargaret Hampson14. Pain and Perspective in Republic 9Katharine R. O’Reilly15. ‘I can’t get no satisfaction’: Pleasure and Happiness in Plato's RepublicJoachim Aufderheide16. Mimesis, Art and the Metaphysics of Appearances in Republic 10Fiona Leigh17. ‘Virtue has no master’Ursula CoopePart II. Images, Education and the Good18. Imagery, Utopia and Plato’s RepublicRachel Barney19. Why the Rulers’ Mathematical Education?Sarah Broadie 20. Glaucon, Gyges and the GoodMary Margaret McCabe21. The Good Reread: A Reply to MMChristopher Rowe22. Breaking the Frame: Justice and Politics Inside and Outside the Republic’s CityVerity Harte 23. Summing Up: ‘the dog that didn’t bark’Brad InwoodBibliographyIndexIndex locorum

This volume represents exemplary Platonic scholarship! [...] Although it thematically tracks Plato’s text, this fine collection is not a companion or handbook. Rather, each essay deploys demanding scholarship to articulate innovative interpretations of the whole.Summing Up: Highly recommended.