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Justice in Plato's Republic: The Lessons of Book 1

Name: Justice in Plato's Republic: The Lessons of Book 1
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ISBN: 9781009466523

Roslyn Weiss

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In Book 4 of Plato's Republic, Socrates introduces what is regarded by scholars as the Platonic account of justice, according to which it is essentially internal and self-regarding, a matter of relations among the parts of a city or soul. In this book, Roslyn Weiss contends that there is another notion of justice, as other-regarding and external, which is to be found in a series of conversations in Book 1 between Socrates and three successive interlocutors. Weiss considers the relationship between justice as conceived in Book 1 and Book 4, and carefully examines what can be learned from each of the arguments. Her close analysis of Book 1 brings to light what Socrates really believed about justice, and extracts and explores this Book's many insights concerning justice-at both the political and the personal level.

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Year:

2025

Publisher:

Cambridge University Press

Language:

English

Pages:

218

ISBN 10:

1009466526