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ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0192580612 

ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎9780192580610

Author: Nicholas D. Smith

Nicholas D. Smith presents an original interpretation of the Republic, considering it to be a book about knowledge and education. Over the course of Summoning Knowledge in Plato’s Republic, he argues for four main theses. Firstly, the Republic is not just a work that has a lot to say about education; it is a book that depicts Socrates as attempting to engage his interlocutors in such a way as to help to educate them and also engages us, the readers, in a way that helps to educate us. Secondly, Plato does not suppose that education, properly understood, should have as its primary aim putting knowledge into souls that do not already have it. Instead, the education Plato discusses, represents occurring between Socrates and his interlocutors, and hopes to achieve in his readers is one that aims to arouse the power of knowledge in us and then to begin to train that power always to engage with what is more real, rather than what is less real. Thirdly, Plato’s conception of knowledge is not the one typically presented in contemporary epistemology. It is, rather, the power of conceptualization by the use of exemplars. And finally, Plato engages this power of knowledge in the Republic in a way he represents as only a kind of second-best way to engage knowledge – and not as the best way, which would be dialectic. Instead, Plato uses images that summon the power of knowledge to begin the process by which the power may become fully realized.

Summoning Knowledge in Plato’s Republic 1st Table of contents:

1. Introduction
1.1 Plato’s Unfamiliar Conceptions of Knowledge and Education
1.2 A Precis of the Argument of this Book
2. Images of Justice
2.1 Conceiving Justice through Images
2.2 Plato’s Analogy of Soul and State
2.3 Plato on the Philosophers’ Love of Truth
3. The Powers of Comprehension
3.1 The Cognitive Powers
3.2 Conceptualization and Comprehension
4. The Sun and the Good
4.1 Why the Good Is So Important
4.2 The Simile of the Sun and Good
5. The Divided Line
5.1 Extending and Amplifying the Simile of the Sun and the Good
5.2 Constructing the Divided Line
5.3 A Flawed Image Again
5.4 Thought and Understanding
5.5 Two Important Analogies within the Divided Line
6. The Cave
6.1 The Structure of the Image
6.2 “Like Us?”
6.3 Return to the Cave
7. Higher Education
7.1 Education in the Republic
7.2 Doing the Math
7.3 Dialectic
7.4 Putting the Education into Practice
8. Some Closing Remarks
8.1 Reasoning in Ethics

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