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Fraught Decisions in Plato and Shakespeare (Paperback)
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Fraught Decisions in Plato and Shakespeare (Paperback)
Series: Philosophical Projections
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In the reincarnation myth in Book X of Plato's Republic, the
unnamed first soul, who has lived a good life and has been rewarded
in the afterlife, chooses a new life and fate, and chooses
catastrophically badly. He finds himself fated to eat his own
children. Despite being warned to blame only himself, he wails and
blames anything and everything else in his conviction that his fate
is undeserved. Though he should not be shocked because he has made
this choice himself, he is incredulous because he has completely
misunderstood the nature of his choice. Starting with Plato's myth,
this book looks at the errors this soul has made and considers
these errors through both the Republic and a series of paired
Shakespeare plays. Reading the Republic along with Othello and The
Comedy of Errors, the first section focuses on the misreading of
comedy and tragedy in the life of the individual; returning to the
Republic and using The Merchant of Venice and Pericles, Part II
focuses on the broadened context of the misuse of political and
economic forces; returning again to the Republic and reading Timon
of Athens and Measure for Measure, Part III focuses on the broadest
context, the misunderstanding of the inseparability of birth and
infinite debt. The hope of the text, and the hope of human life, is
to help us avoid choosing lives that devour what we most love.
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