Platos Republic - The Great Courses
The Great Courses, David Roochnik
Category: Misc. Non-fiction
Tags: Misc. Non-fiction, Political, Adults
More than 2,000 years later, Platos Republic remains astonishingly relevant to our everyday lives. It poses one question after another that might well have been drawn from the headlines and debates of our nations recent history: What sort of person should rule the state? Are all citizens equal before the law? Should everyone have equal access to health care? Platos greater inquiry, however, was into the question of defining justice itself and the reasons why a person would choose a life aligned with that virtue. These 24 remarkable lectures lead you through the brilliant dialogue Plato crafted both to define and examine the issues with which political philosophy still grapples. Chapter by chapter, Professor Roochnik introduces you to Platos literary recasting of his own great teacher, Socrates, and the dialogue through which Socrates and the Republics other characters create the hypothetical ideal city. It is by dissecting life in this presumably just city - the Republic of Platos titl
