Socrates' Second Sailing

On Plato's Republic

• Author(s): Seth Benardete,
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Pages: 248
• ISBN_10: 0226042448
  ISBN_13: 9780226042442
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Philosophy / General , Philosophy / History & Surveys / Ancient & Classical , Philosophy / Political ,

Description:... In this section-by-section commentary, Benardete argues that Plato's Republic is a holistic analysis of the beautiful, the good, and the just. This book provides a fresh interpretation of the Republic and a new understanding of philosophy as practiced by Plato and Socrates.

"Cryptic allusions, startling paradoxes, new questions . . . all work to give brilliant new insights into the Platonic text."—Arlene W. Saxonhouse, Political Theory