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9781589880757

The Music of the Republic

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    9781589880757

  • ISBN10:

    1589880757

  • Edition: Reprint
  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2011-10-18
  • Publisher: Paul Dry Books Inc
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Summary

"The title essay...is a miniature masterpiece, one of the most seminal writings of our time on Plato's Republic."--John Sallis

Author Biography

Eva Brann is a member of the senior faculty at St. John's College in Annapolis, Maryland, where she has taught for more than fifty years.

Table of Contents

Prefacep. xiii
Introduction to the Phaedop. 3
Socrates' Legacy: Plato's Phaedop. 36
The Offense of Socrates: Apologyp. 42
The Tyrant's Temperance: Cbarmidesp. 66
Introduction to Reading the Republicp. 88
The Music of the Republicp. 108
Why Justice? The Answer of the Republicp. 246
Imitative Poetry: Book X of the Republicp. 256
Time in the Timaeusp. 273
Introduction to the Sophistp. 278
Nonbeing Enfolded in Being: The Sophistp. 294
On Translating the Sophistp. 304
Plato's "Theory of Ideas"p. 320
"Teaching Plato" to Undergraduatesp. 344
Notesp. 353
Sources and Acknowledgmentsp. 367
Indexp. 369
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