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Sto caricando le informazioni... Plato's "Republic"di David Roochnik
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. Listened to this on Audible on various car commutes, and Roochnik is an engaging speaker and certainly captured my interest, even when setting off at 5am in the morning before my first coffee. Getting through these lectures involves a similar time commitment to reading Plato's Republic itself, but this allows Roochnik to provide a very in-depth exploration of the issues and his approach is commendably even-handed. The final lecture, exploring Plato's influence on subsequent western philosophers, is also very succinct and valuable. Recommended. ( ) Listened to this on Audible on various car commutes, and Roochnik is an engaging speaker and certainly captured my interest, even when setting off at 5am in the morning before my first coffee. Getting through these lectures involves a similar time commitment to reading Plato's Republic itself, but this allows Roochnik to provide a very in-depth exploration of the issues and his approach is commendably even-handed. The final lecture, exploring Plato's influence on subsequent western philosophers, is also very succinct and valuable. Recommended. nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
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HTML: More than 2,000 years later, Plato's 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 nation's 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? Plato's 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 Plato's literary recasting of his own great teacher, Socrates, and the dialogue through which Socrates and the Republic's other characters create the hypothetical ideal city. It is by dissecting life in this presumably just city - the "Republic" of Plato's title - that the nature of justice itself can be examined.Many of Plato's ideas will startle contemporary readers, who may recognize in them the foreshadowing of some of humankind's darkest moments. Indeed, some have called the Republic the "great-great-grandfather of all totalitarian experiments." You'll wrestle with Plato's controversial vision, and you'll be surprised just how contemporary these arguments sound. .Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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