115 AND 130(a): PLATO REPUBLIC Compiled by CHRISTOPHER KIRWAN, updated by L.Brown and T.K.Johansen A. BOOKS The text prescribed for 130(a) is: (1) Platonis Res Publica, ed. S.Slings, Oxford Classical Texts (OUP 2003) The translation prescribed for 115 is: (2) Plato Republic, tr. G.M.A. Grube, revised by C.D.C. Reeve (Hackett 1992) There are, of course, many other English translations., e.g. Shorey, P. trans Plato: The Republic, Loeb Classical Library, 2 vols. (Cambridge Mass. 1937); Griffith, T. (transl), and Ferrari, G. ed., Plato: The Republic, Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought (CUP 2000) The most recent line-by-line commentaries in English are: (3) Adam, J. The Republic of Plato, with notes, 2 vols (CUP 1902, 2nd ed. 1963) (4) Halliwell, S. Plato Republic X (Aris & Phillips 1988) (5) Halliwell, S. Plato Republic V (Aris & Phillips 1993) Some examinations of the dialogue are: (6) Annas, J.E. Introduction to Plato's Republic (OUP 1981) (7) Cross, R.C., & Woozley, A.D. Plato's Republic: a philosophical commentary (Macmillan 1964) (8) Ferrari, G.R.F. City  and  Soul  in  Plato’s  Republic (Academia Verlag 2003)

(9) Ferrari, G. ed. The Cambridge Companion to Plato's Republic (CUP 2007) (with full further bibliography) (10) Kraut, R., ed. Plato's Republic: critical essays (Rowman & Littlefield 1997) (11) Ostenfeld, E.N., ed. Essays on Plato's Republic (Århus UP 1998) (12) Pappas, N. Plato and the Republic (Routledge 2003) (13) Reeve, C.D.C. Philosopher-kings: the argument of Plato's Republic (Princeton UP 1988) (14) Santas, G. ed. The Blackwell Guide to Plato's Republic (Blackwell 2006) (15) White, N.P. A Companion to Plato's Republic (Blackwell 1979) Other treatments of major themes in the Republic can be found in: (16) Irwin, T.H. Plato's Ethics (OUP 1995) (17) Popper, K.R. The Open Society and its Enemies, volume i: the spell of Plato (Routledge 1945, 3rd ed.1957) (18) Robinson, R. Plato's Earlier Dialectic, 2nd ed. (Clarendon 1953) (19) Ryle, G. Plato's Progress (CUP 1966) (20) Schofield, M. 'Plato', in Craig, E., ed. Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy, vol. 7 (Routledge 1998) pp.399-421 (21) Schofield, M. Plato. Political Philosophy (OUP 2006) (22) Vlastos, G. Platonic Studies (Princeton UP 1973, 2nd ed. 1981) (23) White, N.P. Plato on Knowledge and Reality (Hackett 1976) Collections containing useful articles on the Republic include: (24) Anton, J.P. & Kustas, G.L., ed. Essays in Ancient Greek Philosophy, volumes i-iii. (State University of New York Press 1971-89) (25) Bambrough, R., ed. New Essays on Plato & Aristotle (Routledge 1965) (26) Bambrough, R., ed. Plato, Popper and Politics: some contributions to a modern controversy (Heffer 1967) (27) Everson, S., ed. Epistemology (Companions to Ancient Thought, i.) (CUP 1990)

(28) Everson, S., ed. Psychology (Companions to Ancient Thought, ii.) (CUP 1991) (29) Everson, S., ed. Ethics (Companions to Ancient Thought, iv.) (CUP 1998) (30) Fine, G., ed. The Oxford Handbook of Plato (OUP 2008) (31) Fine, G., Plato on Knowledge and Forms (OUP 2003) (32) Fine, G., ed. Plato 1: metaphysics and epistemology, (Oxford Readings in Philosophy) (OUP 1999) (33) Fine, G., ed. Plato 2: ethics, politics, religion and the soul, (Oxford Readings in Philosophy) (OUP 1999) (34) Graham, D., Vlastos, G. eds. Studies in Greek Philosophy, volumes i, ii (Princeton UP 1994) (35) Kraut, R. ed., The Cambridge Companion to Plato (CUP 1992) (36) Lee, E.N., Mourelatos, A.P.D., & Rorty, R., eds. Exegesis and Argument, studies in Greek philosophy presented to Gregory Vlasto, Phronesis supplement I (Van Gorcum 1974) (37) Vlastos, G., ed. Plato, a collection of critical essays: volume1. Metaphysics and epistemology (Macmillan 1971) (38) Vlastos, G., ed. Plato, a collection of critical essays: volume 2. Ethics, politics, and philosophy of art and religion. (Macmillan 1971) B. TOPICS References to (6), (7), (10), (12), (13) and (14) are generally not given. 1. Plato Irwin, T.H. 'Plato: the intellectual background', in (35) 51—89 Irwin,  T.H.  ‘The  Platonic  Corpus’ in (30), ch.1 Malcolm Schofield ‘Plato  in  His  Time  and  Place’  in  (30),  ch.2 2. Introduction to the Republic Plato, Timaeus 17c — 19a, for example in Platonis Opera. Oxford Classical Texts Volume 4 edited by J.Burnet, (OUP 1899-1907); or The Dialogues of Plato. volume 3, 3rd edition,

translated with analysis, and introduced by Benjamin Jowett (OUP 1953) pp.631-780; or Plato: VII, Timaeus, Critias, Cleitophon, Menexenus Epistles Loeb classical library translated by R.G. Bury (Heinemann 1929) Aristotle Politics1264b, in for example The Politics (Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought) edited by Stephen Everson (CUP 1988); or Aristotelis Politica edited by W. D. Ross,(OUP 1957); or Benjamin Jowett Politica (OUP 1921) (19) esp. 244-50 Rowe,  C.J.:  ‘The  Literary  and  Philosophical  Style  of  the  Republic’,  in  (14)  7-24 Rowe,  C.J.  :  ‘The  Place  of  the  Republic in  Plato’s  Political  Thought’,  in  (9)  27-54 Schofield,  M.:  ‘Approaching  the  Republic’,  in  Rowe,  C.,  Schofield  M.,  eds.,  The Cambridge History of Greek and Roman Political Thought (CUP 2000) 190-232 3. Book I Kerferd, G.B.: 'The Doctrine of Thrasymachus in Plato's Republic', Durham University Journal ix (1947) 19—27, reprinted in Classen, C.J., ed. Sophistik (Darmstadt 1976) 545—63 Nicholson, P.P.: 'Unravelling Thrasymachus' Argument in the Republic', Phronesis xix (1974) 210—32 Young, C.M.: 'Polemarchus' and Thrasymachus' Definitions of Justice', Philosophical Inquiry ii (1980) 404—19 Reeve, C.D.C.: 'Plato meets Thrasymachus', Archiv für Geschichte der Philosophie lxvii (1985) 246—65 Everson, S.: 'The Incoherence of Thrasymachus', Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy xvi (1998) 99—131 Thayer, H.S.: 'Plato: the theory and language of function', Philosophical Quarterly xiv (1964) 303—18, reprinted in Sesonske, A., ed. Plato's Republic: interpretation and criticism (Wadsworth 1966) 21—39 Barney,  R.:  ‘Socrates’  Refutation  of  Thrasymachus’  in  (14)  44-62 4. The Challenge of Glaucon and Adeimantus Rep. 357—67, 444e—445a, 612 Kirwan, C.A.: 'Glaucon's Challenge', Phronesis x (1965) 162-73 Waterlow, S.: 'The Good of Others in Plato's Republic', Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society lxxiii (1972-3) 19—36 Creed, J.L.: 'Is it wrong to call Plato a utilitarian?', Classical Quarterly xxviii (1978) 349—65

White, N.P.: 'The Classification of Goods in Plato's Republic', Journal of the History of Philosophy xxii (1984) 393—421 Irwin, T.H.: 'Republic 2: questions about justice', in (33) 164—85 Heinaman,  R.:’Plato’s  Division  of  Goods  in  the  Republic’  Phronesis 47 (2002) 309-35 C.D.Reeve:  ‘Glaucon’s  Challenge  and  Thrasymacheanism’  in  Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy (2008), 69-103 C.Shields:  ‘Plato’s  Challenge:  The  Case  Against  Justice  in  Republic II’,  in  (14)  63-83 5. The Ideal City Rep. 368—427 (17) chs 4, 6 Bambrough, R.: 'Plato's Political Analogies', in Laslett, P., ed. Philosophy, Politics and Society, series i. (Blackwell 1956) 98—115, reprinted in (26) 152—169 and in (38) 187—205 Neu, J.: 'Plato's Analogy of State and Individual: the Republic and the organic theory of the state', Philosophy xlvi (1971) 238—254 Taylor, C.C.W.: 'Plato's Totalitarianism', Polis v (1986) 4—29, reprinted in (10) 31—48 and in (33) 280—296 Burnyeat, M.F.: 'Utopia and Fantasy: the practicability of Plato's ideal city', in J. Hopkins & A. Savile, edd. Psychoanalysis, Mind and Art (Blackwell 1992) 175—87, reprinted in (33) 297—308 Brown, L.: 'How Totalitarian is Plato's Republic?', in (11) 13—25 6. The Parts of the Soul Rep. 436a—441c Penner, T.: 'Thought and Desire in Plato', in (38) 196—118 Robinson, R.: 'Plato's Separation of Reason from Desire', Phronesis xvi (1971) 38—48 Stalley, R.: 'Plato's Arguments for the Division of the Reasoning and Appetitive Elements within the Soul', Phronesis xx (1975) 110—128 Cooper, J.M.: 'Plato's Theory of Human Motivation', History of Philosophy Quarterly i (1984) 3—21, reprinted in (33) 186—206 Woods, M.J.: 'Plato's Division of the Soul', Proceedings of the British Academy lxxiii (1987) 23—47

Kahn, C.H.: 'Plato's Theory of Desire', Review of Metaphysics xli (1987) 77-103 Burnyeat, M.F.: 'The Truth of Tripartition', Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society106 (2006) 1-23 Lorenz,  H.:  'The  Analysis  of  Soul  in  Plato’s  Republic’  in  (14)  146-65 Lorenz, H.: The Brute Within. Appetitive Desire in Plato and Aristotle, (OUP) 18-40 Moss,  J.:  ‘Appearances  and  Calculations:  Plato’s  Division  of  the  Soul’,  Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy 34 (2008) 35-68 7. The City-Soul Analogy Rep. 367e—368e, 427c—436a, 441c—445e Sachs, D.: 'A Fallacy in Plato's Republic', Philosophical Review lxxii (1963) 141—58, reprinted in Sesonske, A., ed. Plato's Republic: interpretation and criticism (Wadsworth 1966) 66—81, (38) 35—51, and (10) 1—16 Kenny, A.J.P.: 'Mental Health in Plato's Republic', Proceedings of the British Academy lv (1969) 229-53, reprinted in Kenny, A.J.P. The Anatomy of the Soul (Blackwell 1973) 1-27 Vlastos, G.: 'The Theory of Social Justice in the polis in Plato's Republic', in North, H., ed. Interpretations of Plato: a Swarthmore symposium (Mnemosyne supplementary volume l) (Brill 1977) 1—40 Cooper, J.M.: 'The Psychology of Justice in Plato', American Philosophical Quarterly xiv (1977) 151-7, reprinted in (10) 17—30 Williams, B.A.O.: 'The Analogy of City and Soul in Plato's Republic', in (36) 196—206, reprinted in (10) 49—59 and in (33) 255—64 Lear,  J.  “Inside  and  Outside  the  Republic,”  Phronesis, 37 (1992): 184–215, reprinted in Wagner, E. ed., Essays on Plato's Psychology (Lanham, MD: Lexington Books 2001) 169–202 Smith,  N.D.,“Plato's  Analogy  of  Soul  and  State,”  Journal of Ethics, 3 (1999): 31–49., reprinted in Wagner, E. ed., Essays on Plato's Psychology, (Lanham, MD: Lexington Books 2001) 115–136 Ferrari, G.R.F: City  and  Soul  in  Plato’s  Republic (Sankt Augustin 2003); lectures 2 and 3 8. The Distinction between Knowledge and Opinion Rep. 473c—480 Aristotle: Metaphysics 987a 32, 1010a 10 in, for example, Aristotle's Metaphysics , commentary and introduction by W.D. Ross (OUP 1924)

Vlastos, G.: 'Degrees of Reality in Plato', in (26) 1—20, reprinted in (22) Cooper, N.: 'Between Knowledge and Ignorance', Phronesis xxxi (1986) 229—42 Fine, G.: 'Knowledge and Belief in Republic V', Archiv für Geschichte der Philosophie lx (1978) 121-39, reprinted in (31) Fine, G.: 'Knowledge and Belief in Republic V—VII', in (27) 85—115, reprinted in (32) 215—46 and in (31) Brown,  L.:  “The  verb  ‘to  be’  in  Greek  Philosophy,  III-IV, in S.Everson, ed Language, (CUP 1994) 9. The Three Images Rep. 506-518 Wilson, J.S.: 'The Contents of the Cave', in Shiner, R., & King-Farlow, J., eds. New Essays on Plato and the Pre-Socratics (Canadian Journal of Philosophy) supplementary volume ii. (Guelph 1976) 117-29 Karasmanis, V.: 'Plato's Republic: the line and the cave', Apeiron xxi (1988) 147—71 Santas, G.X.: 'The Form of the Good in Plato's Republic', Philosophical Inquiry (1980) 374—403, reprinted in (24), vol.2, 232—63 and in (34) 247—74 Strang, C.: 'Plato's Analogy of the Cave', Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy iv (1986) 19-34 Brunschwig,  J.  ‘Revisiting  Plato’s  Cave’,  Boston Area Colloquium in Ancient Philosophy 19 (2003) 145-73 Sedley,  D.  ‘Philosophy,  the  Forms  and  the  Art  of  Ruling’,  in  (9)  256-283 Denyer,  N.  ‘Sun  and  Line:  The  Role  of  the  Good’  in  (9)  284-309 10. Mathematics and Dialectic Rep. 518—41 Phaedo 96—102 (18) chs 6, 10, 11 Hare, R.M.: 'Plato and the Mathematicians', in (25) 21—38 Taylor, C.C.W.: 'Plato and the Mathematicians: an examination of Professor Hare's views', Philosophical Quarterly xvii (1967) 193-203 Lloyd,  G.E.R.:  ‘Plato  as  a  Natural  Scientist’  in  Journal of Hellenic Studies 88 (1968) 78-92 Lloyd,  G.E.R.:  ‘Plato  on  Mathematics  and  Nature,  Myth  and  Science’,  in  Lloyd,  G.E.R., Methods and Problems in Greek Science (CUP 1991)

Mourelatos,  A.P.D.:  ‘”Plato’s  Real  Astronomy”:  Republic 527d-531d’,  in  Anton,  J.D. ed., Science and the Sciences in Plato (Delmar New York 1980) 33-73 Mueller,  I.  ‘Ascending  to  Problems:  Astronomy  and  Harmonics  in  Republic  7’  in  Anton,  J.D.  ed., Science and the Sciences in Plato (Delmar New York 1980) 103-21 Burnyeat,  M.F.:  ‘Plato  on why  Mathematics  is  good  for  the  Soul’  in    Mathematics and Necessity ed T.Smiley (OUP 2002) 11. Justice and Happiness Rep. 443—5, 576—87 Vlastos, G.: 'Justice and Happiness in the Republic', in (38) 66—95, reprinted in (22) Dahl, N.A.: 'Plato's Defence of Justice', Philosophy and Phenomenological Research li (1991) 809—834, reprinted in (33) 207—234 Kraut, R.: 'Return to the Cave: Republic 519—521', in (33) 235—254 Kraut, R.: 'The Defense of Justice in Plato's Republic', in (35) 311—337, reprinted in (10) 197—221 Mahoney, T.A.: 'Do Plato's Philosopher-rulers sacrifice Self-interest to Justice?', Phronesis xxxvii (1992) 265—282 Scott, D. ‘Plato's critique  of  the  democratic  character’  Phronesis 45 (2000) 19–37 Parry,  R.  ‘The  Unhappy  Tyrant  and  the  Craft  of  Inner  Rule’  in  (9)  386-414 12. Pleasure Rep. 581-588 Plato Protagoras 352b-357e, Gorgias esp. 491-505, Philebus esp. 31b-55a Gosling, J.C.B., & Taylor, C.C.W. The Greeks on Pleasure (OUP, 1982) Nussbaum,  M.C.:  ‘The  Republic: true value and  the  standpoint  of  perfection’  in  Nussbaum,  M.C., The Fragility of Goodness (CUP 1986) 136–164 13. Art, Poetry and Censorship Rep. 376—403, 595—608 Annas, J.E.: 'Plato on the Triviality of Literature', in Moravcsik, J.M.E., & Temko, P., eds. Plato on Beauty, Wisdom, and the Arts (Rowman & Littlefield 1982) 1—28

Urmson, J.O.: 'Plato and the Poets', in Moravcsik, J.M.E., & Temko, P., eds. Plato on Beauty, Wisdom, and the Arts (Rowman & Littlefield 1982) 125—36, reprinted in (10) 223—34 Nehamas, A.: 'Plato on Imitation and Poetry in Republic 10', in Moravcsik, J.M.E., & Temko, P., eds. Plato on Beauty, Wisdom, and the Arts (Rowman & Littlefield 1982) 47—78 Moravcsik, J.M.E.: 'On Correcting the Poets', Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy iv (1986) 35—47 Murdoch, I.: The Fire and the Sun: why Plato banished the artists (OUP 1977) Ferrari,  G.:  ‘Plato  and  Poetry’,  in  Kennedy,  G.A.  ed.,  The Cambridge History of Literary Criticism, vol.1: Classical Criticism (Cambridge 1989) Janaway, C.: Images of Excellence, Plato’s  Critique  of  the  Arts (OUP 1995) Burnyeat,  M.F.:  ‘Culture  and  Society  in  Plato’s  Republic’  in  Tanner Lectures on Human Values vol 20, 1999, online at www.tannerlectures.utah.edu/lectures/documents/Burnyeat99.pdf Halliwell, S.: The Aesthetics of Mimesis (Princeton UP 2002) Moss,  J.:  ‘What  is  imitative  poetry  and  why  is  it  bad?’  in  (9)  415-443 Kamtekar,  R.:  ‘Plato  on  Education  and  Art’,  in  (30)   14. Women Rep. 449—66 Calvert, B.: 'Plato and the Equality of Women', Phoenix xxix (1975) 231—243 Saxonhouse, A.W.: 'The Philosopher and the Female in the Political Thought of Plato', Political Theory iv (1976) 195—212, reprinted in (10) 95—113 Annas, J.E.: 'Plato's Republic and Feminism', Philosophy li (1976) 307—21, reprinted in (33) 265—79 Lesser, H.: 'Plato's Feminism', Philosophy liv (1979) 113—17 Vlastos, G.: 'Was Plato a Feminist?', Times Literary Supplement 4485 (17 March 1989) 276, 288—9, reprinted in (34) ii 133—43 and in (10) 115—28 Cohen, D.: 'The Social Context of Adultery at Athens', in P. Cartledge, P. Millett & S. Todd, eds., Nomos: essays in Athenian law, politics and society (CUP 1990) 15. The final myth of the Republic Rep. 614-621 (4) Annas, J.E.: 'Plato's Myths of Judgement', Phronesis xxvii (1982) 119—413

Robinson, T.M.: 'Soul and Immortality in Republic X', Phronesis xii (1967) 147—151 Lear,  J.:  ‘Allegory  and  Myth  in  Plato’s  Republic’, in (14) 25-43 Ferrari,  G.:  ‘Glaucon’s  Reward,  Philosophy’s  Debt:  The  Myth  of  Er’,  in  Partenie,  C.  ed.  Plato’s  Myths (CUP 2008) Copyright Remember, the amount you can photocopy is restricted by law. You may copy up to one chapter from a book, or one article from a journal part. For further information, consult library staff. Electronic texts Almost all ancient Greek philosophical texts, including the Republic, can be found in the Thesaurus Linguae Graecae (‘TLG’)  at  http://www.tlg.uci.edu/ Many of these are also available in translation from Perseus Digital Library at www.perseus.tufts.edu Past Masters offers an expanding range of key philosophers. These can be accessed via the philosophy section in OXLIP, see Philosophical texts On-line (http://www.bodley.ox.ac.uk/oxlip/index.html). Many OUP monographs on philosophy, including ancient philosophy, are available at Oxford Scholarship Online; follow the OSO tab on The Philosophy Library website under electronic resources.