An Introduction to Plato's Republic

Download or read book An Introduction to Plato's Republic written by Julia Annas and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1981-01 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This interpretive introduction provides unique insight into Plato's Republic. Stressing Plato's desire to stimulate philosophical thinking in his readers, Julia Annas here demonstrates the coherence of his main moral argument on the nature of justice, and expounds related concepts ofeducation, human motivation, knowledge and understanding. In a clear systematic fashion, this book shows that modern moral philosophy still has much to learn from Plato's attempt to move the focus from questions of what acts the just person ought to perform to the more profound questions of whatsort of person the just person ought to be.