City and Soul in Plato´s Republic

Sobre el libro City and Soul in Plato´s Republic de G.R.F. (ed.) Ferrari publicado por Chicago al 2005:

Tracing a central theme of Plato´s Republic, G. R. F. Ferrari reconsiders in this study the nature and purpose of the comparison between the structure of society and that of the individual soul. In four chapters, Ferrari examines the personalities and social status of the brothers Glaucon and Adeimantus, Plato´s notion of justice, coherence in Plato´s description of the decline of states, and the tyrant and the philosopher king—a pair who, in their different ways, break with the terms of the city-soul analogy. In addition to acknowledging familiar themes in the interpretation of the Republic—the sincerity of its utopianism, the justice of the philosopher´s return to the Cave—Ferrari provocatively engages secondary literature by Leo Strauss, Bernard Williams, and Jonathan Lear. With admirable clarity and insight, Ferrari conveys the relation between the city and the soul and the choice between tyranny and philosophy. City and Soul in Plato´s Republic will be of value to students of classics, philosophy, and political theory alike.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Preface Chapter 1. The Brothers 1. The house of Cephalus 2. The values of a gentleman 3. Why govern? 4. A real man 5. The values of a philosopher Sources and Scholarly Contexts for Chapter 1 Chapter 2. City and Soul: Misunderstandings 1. A fork in the road 2. Williams´ challenge 3. Lear´s dilemma Sources and Scholarly Contexts for Chapter 2 Chapter 3. City and Soul: A Metaphorical Understanding 1. A proportional metaphor 2. Timocracy, oligarchy, democracy 3. Why metaphors matter Sources and Scholarly Contexts for Chapter 3 Chapter 4. Tyrant and King 1. An asymmetry 2. The tyrant 3. The philosopher-king 4. The city and man Sources and Scholarly Contexts for Chapter 4 References Index locorum