Plato’s the republic

目录
柏拉图与《理想国》
引子:洞穴
走进《理想国》
一 柏拉图、苏格拉底与他们的世界
谁是苏格拉底
谁是柏拉图
柏拉图与政治
柏拉图和苏格拉底的关系
柏拉图的苏格拉底式的对话
苏格拉底和柏拉图式的反讽
二 关于正义
波勒马库和传统的正义的理念
与斯拉西马库的争论:苏格拉底式的方法与诡辩式的方法相比较
苏格拉底首次为正义作辩护
格劳孔和阿德曼图重申正义的问题
三 政治策略:建立正义之邦
为什么要建立城邦
最小的社会团体
文明城邦
从奢华和战争到士兵再到护卫者
护卫的本质:哲学之犬
高贵的谎言
对高贵谎言的批判与辩护
护卫者的生活条件
幸福、财富和贫穷
四 教育和审查制度
教育的首要性
教育:《理想国》的大背景
该给孩子讲什么样的故事呢?
关于审查制度:柏拉图和他的批评者们
伦理教育
五 心灵学:分裂的灵魂
心灵的本质
灵魂的自我分裂
灵魂的三部分
柏拉图和弗洛伊德
六 妇女、家庭和战争
妇女平等
生育和抚养后代的公共安排;选择性生育
共产主义与团结
亚里士多德的批判主义——多元化而不是单一论
怎样将战争人性化
七 哲学的统治
哲学是什么谁是哲学家
转瞬即逝的表演与本质的美之间的比较
知识与信仰的对比
哲学家的特点
哲学的命运
八 善与洞穴
善的理念
太阳与善
洞穴
九 高等教育
统一与难题
辩证法
十 糟糕的政府制度
柏拉图的地狱
尊荣政体
寡头制
民主制
从民主制到僭主制——暴政者带来的不幸
十一 诗歌的命运
诗人——巧妙的模仿者
诗歌对灵魂毫无价值
反对放逐的可能性
诗歌的辩护
伟大的自相矛盾:作为诗人的柏拉图
尾声: 厄洛斯的神话
Plato's the Republic
Introduction:the cave
Approaching the republic
1 Plato and Socrates in their worlds
Who was Socrates?
Who was Plato?
Plato's involvement with politlcs
The Plato Socrates relatlonshlp
Plato's Socratic dialogues
Socratic and platonic irony
2 Towards justice
Polemarchus and conventional ideas of justice
The duel with thrasymachus:Socratic versus sophistic approaches
Socrates's first defence of justice
Glaucon and adeimantus restate the case againsit justice
3 Politics:building the just city
Why build the city?
The minimal community
The civilized city
From luxury and war to soldiers to guardians
The nature of guardianship:philosophical dogs
The noble lie
Criticisms and justifications of the noble lie
Living conditions of the guardians
Happiness,wealth and poverty
4 Education and censorship
The overriding importance of education
Education as the context of the republic
Does it matter what stories we tell our children?
On censorship:
Ethical education
5 Psychology:
The nature of psyche
The soul divided against itself
The three parts of the soul
Plato and freud
6 Women, family and war
The equality of women
Communal arrangements for child-begetting and rearing:selective breeding
Communism and unity
Aristotle's criticisms-plurality not unity
How to humanize war
7 The rule of philosophy
What is philosophy who is the philosopher?
The passing show versus essential beauty
Knowledge versus belief
The character of the philosopher
The fate of philosophy
8 The good and the cave
The idea of good
The sun and the good
The cave
9 Higher education
Unity and difficulty
Dialectic
10 Bad government
Plato's inferno
Timarchy
Oligarchy
Democracy
From democracy to tyranny -the unhappiness of the tyrant
11 The fate of poetry
Poets as skilful imitators
Poetry feeding the worthless part of the soul
The possibility of appeal against banishment
Defence of poetry
The great paradox:Plato as poet
Epilogue:the myth of er
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