Blindness and Reorientation: Problems in Plato's Republic

by C.D.C. Reeve

Are the just happier than the unjust? In Plato' s Republic, Thrasymachus argues that they aren't, that justice is simply the advantage of the stronger. Though Socrates apparently refutes him, Plato's brothers, Glaucon and Adeimantus, take up his argument anew, challenging Socrates to show them that justice really does better further happiness than injustice.

The nature of this renewed challenge and the reason for it are hotly debated problems...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199934436
• ISBN13: 9780199934430
• Release Date: December 2012
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 230 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.2" x 9.2"