Table of Contents
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Acknowledgments |
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Introduction |
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1. Fathers and Sons |
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2. Taming the Beast: Socrates versus Thrasymachus |
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3. A Fresh Start |
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4. Blueprints for a Platonic Utopia: Education and Culture |
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5. Starting to Answer the First Question: The Political Virtues |
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6. The Republic’s First Question Answered at Last: Personal Justice |
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7. Questions about the Idea Polis: The Three Waves |
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8. Surfing the Third Wave: Plato’s Metaphysical Elevator, the Powers Argument, and the Infallibility of Knowledge |
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9. The Philosopher’s Virtues |
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10. Metaphors to Think by: The Sun and Divided Line Analogies |
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11. The Allegory of the Cave |
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12. The Decline and Fall of the Ideal City-Soul |
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13. The Republic’s Second Question Answered: Three and a Half Arguments that the Just Life is Happier |
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14. Are We There Yet? Tying up Loose Ends in Book X |
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Afterword |
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List of Illustrations |
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Bibliography |
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Index |