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Cooperative Flourishing in Plato's 'Republic' - A Theory of Justice (Hardcover)
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Cooperative Flourishing in Plato's 'Republic' - A Theory of Justice (Hardcover)
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In this pathbreaking interpretation of Plato's foundational text of
political philosophy, Carolina Araujo reveals how the Republic
remains ripe for an interpretation grounded in notions of
cooperation, flourishing and justice relevant to the diversity of
contemporary life. Plato's Republic has the Greek name of Politeia
that Araujo translates as "the way of life of the citizens," not
"the State" or "the form of government" as it more traditionally
rendered. Plato's treatise, Politeia, depicts the rich array of
patterns emerging from human interaction and enquires into the best
amongst them. Cooperative Flourishing in Plato's Republic returns
to these important questions about society - how to live with a
vast diversity of personalities, with different interests and
abilities, all of them trying to flourish - and asks how best can
we share our environment? With rigorous philosophical analysis of
the Greek text, accompanied by original translations of the most
important passages, Araujo upends mainstream scholarship to
progress Socrates' "bottom-up" view of politics and rejects
previous readings of the Republic as a proto-totalitarian text,
psychological study or lengthy analogy. By defending a theory of
Platonic justice that is rooted in cooperative flourishing, the
public education of all citizens and the contribution of
philosophers to political life, "the beautiful city", which Plato
called Kallipolis, emerges as a hopeful possibility.
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