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The City-State of the Soul - Constituting the Self in Plato's Republic (Hardcover)
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The City-State of the Soul - Constituting the Self in Plato's Republic (Hardcover)
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The City-State of the Soul: Self-Constitution in Plato's Republic
explores Plato's idea that the moral life consists in the founding
of one's own soul. This insight is central to the long argument of
the Republic and, in particular, to the complex relation between
the city and the human soul. This fruitful picture of the moral
life, however, has not received the attention it deserves. As Kevin
M. Crotty argues, Plato's distinctive insight is that justice is
above all a creative force. Plato presents justice not as a
relation amongst fully formed individuals, but rather as the
quality that galvanizes a diverse welter of disparate parts into a
coherent entity (above all, a soul or a city). Justice, then, is
the virtue most closely associated with being-the source of its
philosophical stature. Plato presents a conception of justice meant
to impress the young, bright and ambitious as a noble pursuit, and
a task worthy of their best talents. The City-State of the Soul is
written for anyone interested in the Republic, including but not
limited to students and scholars of ancient philosophy, political
philosophy, ethics, and ancient Greek literature.
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