Plato's Sun-Like Good: Dialectic in the Republic

by Sarah Broadie

Book Overview

Plato's Sun-Like Good is a revolutionary discussion of the Republic's philosopher-rulers, their dialectic, and their relation to the form of the good. With detailed arguments Sarah Broadie explains how, if we think of the form of the good as 'interrogative', we can re-conceive those central reference-points of Platonism in down-to-earth terms without loss to our sense of Plato's philosophical greatness. The book's main aims are: first, to show how...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1009016407
• ISBN13: 9781009016407
• Release Date: February 2023
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 250 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"