The transformation of Plato's Republic /
"Kenneth Dorter, in a passage-by-passage analysis, traces Plato's depiction of how the most basic forms of human functioning and social justice contain the seed of their evolution into increasingly complex structures, as well as the seed of their degeneration. Dorter also examines Plato�...
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Table of Contents:
- Theories of justice (book 1)
- The origin of the city (book 2 to 376c)
- Education of the guardians (book 2.376c-book 3.412b)
- The rationally self-controlled city (book 3.412b-book 4)
- The three waves (book 5)
- The sun, line, and cave (books 6 and 7 to 519b)
- Philosopher-rulers (book 7 from 519b)
- Decline and fall (books 8 and 9 to 575d)
- The superiority of justice (book 9 from 575e)
- Art and death (book 10)
- The limits of the Timaeus.