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Part 1 - Approaching the Sun-Good Analogy

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 July 2021

Sarah Broadie
Affiliation:
University of St Andrews, Scotland
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Summary

The topics of Part 1, an introductory chapter, include: the form of the good; dialectic; the possibility of Plato's 'Callipolis'; the nature of the true philosopher; the philosopher-rulers' intellectual task; the 'most important thing(s) to learn'; the virtues; the meaning of the 'longer way'; the good as a reference point for distinguishing true from false accounts of virtues and virtuous things; and the definability (or not) of the good.

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Plato's Sun-Like Good
Dialectic in the Republic
, pp. 1 - 12
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2021

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