Plato's critique of impure reason : on goodness and truth in the Republic /

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In this book, D.C. Schindler begins with a diagnosis of the crisis of reason in contemporary culture as a background to the study of the Republic. He then sets out a philosophical interpretation of the dialogue in five chapters: an analysis of Book I that shows the inherent violence and dogmatism of...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Schindler, D. C.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Washington, D.C. : Catholic University of America Press, ©2008.
Temas:
Plato. > Republic.
Platon. > "République"
Plato. > Res publica.
Plato.
Republic (Plato)
Reason.
Truth.
Raison.
Vérité.
reason.
truth.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > General.
PHILOSOPHY > Political.
Reason
Truth
Wahrheit an sich
Idee des Guten
Vernunft
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction. Misology and the modern academy
  • La raison oblige?
  • Dogmatism and skepticism
  • Misological habits
  • The significance of Plato
  • Plan and method
  • Chapter 1. A logic of violence
  • Where do we start?
  • Shadows of justice
  • The power of appearance
  • Thrasymachus: relativism as violence
  • Common good or good of each?
  • Crisis
  • Argument as drama
  • Shifting horizons
  • Chapter 2. With good reason
  • The first sailing
  • The twofold nature of goodness
  • Forms, likenesses, and the souls that love them
  • The good as cause of truth
  • Approaches to the good
  • Intimate knowledge
  • Knowledge and love as ascent
  • Surprised by truth
  • Chapter 3. Breaking in
  • The overburdened image
  • Keeping the parts together
  • Bringing forth the good
  • A good turn
  • The "perfect" image
  • The dramatic structure of knowledge
  • Chapter 4. On being invisible
  • An altogether different level
  • Socrates as a stand-in for the good
  • Seeing through
  • Obedience unto death
  • Justice and obedience
  • Showing the philosopher's invisibility
  • The invisible author
  • Chapter 5. The truth is defenseless
  • Guarding reason
  • Real knowledge and ecstatic reason
  • Good communication
  • War and battle
  • The indefensible defense of the defenseless
  • The "noble risk" of ignorance
  • Coda: Restoring appearances
  • Is Plato a platonist?
  • Contradiction in appearance
  • Good distance
  • The way up and the way down
  • Conversio and phantasmata
  • Socrates redivivus
  • Plato goes down.

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