Plato's Fable

On the Mortal Condition in Shadowy Times

Autor: Joshua Mitchell

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Oprawa: Twarda

Wydawca: Princeton University Press

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This book is an exploration of "Plato's Republic" that bypasses arcane scholarly debates. "Plato's F...

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Autor

Joshua Mitchell

Język

Angielski

Oprawa

Książka - Twarda

Data wydania

2006

strony

224

EAN

9780691124384

ISBN

0691124388

Enbook ID

04641070

Wydawca

Princeton University Press

Waga

454

Wymiary

152 x 235 x 17

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This book is an exploration of "Plato's Republic" that bypasses arcane scholarly debates. "Plato's Fable" provides refreshing insight into what, in Plato's view, is the central problem of life: the mortal propensity to adopt defective ways of answering the question of how to live well. How, in light of these tendencies, can humankind be saved? Joshua Mitchell discusses the question in unprecedented depth by examining one of the great books of Western civilization.He draws us beyond the ancients/moderns debate, and beyond the notion that "Plato's Republic" is best understood as shedding light on the promise of discursive democracy. Instead, Mitchell argues, the question that ought to preoccupy us today is neither "reason" nor "discourse," but rather "imitation." To what extent is man first and foremost an "imitative" being? This, Mitchell asserts, is the subtext of the great political and foreign policy debates of our times. "Plato's Fable" is not simply a work of textual exegesis. It is an attempt to move debates within political theory beyond their current location. Mitchell recovers insights about the depth of the problem of mortal imitation from Plato's magnificent work, and seeks to explicate the meaning of Plato's central claim - that "only philosophy can save us."

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