BOOKS ON RESERVE. Use the eQuest (click here) catalog, select Course Reserves, then look them up under either Instructor (Hussey, White, or Williams), or Course (102: HON) . You can remove articles from the Republic ring binder for photocopying, but be sure to put them back in the right place in the binder!
Here are a few of the items on reserve - there are several more, not listed here.
Republic Articles: Ring
binder contents (click to see them)
Ambrose Bierce : alone in bad company / Roy Morris, Jr. The most recent literary biography of Bierce, with comments and historical background on many of his stories. Look in the index to find comments on a specific story.
Bonnet brigades. About women in the Civil War.
Finitude and transcendence in the Platonic dialogues / Drew Hyland. A provocative, unconventional approach. Most of chapters 1-4 are about the Republic (books 1-2-3 and 5). Emphasis on irony by both Socrates and Plato.
Introduction to Plato's Republic / by Julia Annas. Probably the best intro available.
Mothers of invention : women of the slaveholding South in the American Civil War / Drew Gilpin Faust. EKU has other interesting books by Faust on the CW and slavery.
Plato's Republic : critical essays / edited by Richard Kraut. 13 scholarly essays, medium-to-high level. A couple of interesting ones on Plato's view of women, especially the "Naked Old Women . . . "
Reading Faulkner. The unvanquished / by James C. Hinkle. Interpretive comments and background on almost everything in the novel! Lots of interesting ideas.
Republic Articles in the ring binder on reserve:
R1. Annas, Julia. “Plato on the Triviality of Literature,” in
Plato
on Beauty, Wisdom, and the
Arts, ed. by Julius Moravcsik.
Rowan and Littlefield, 1982. Finds Plato to be both
inconsistent and insightful in
his treatment of the arts!
R2. Blundell, Mary Whitlock. “Self-Censorship in Plato’s Republic.”
Apeiron,
Vol. 26, No. 3-4,
Sept-Dec 1993, 17-36. Argues
that Socrates’ views on censorship are not Plato’s! An
interesting and effective interpretation
of the Republic as a drama.
R3. Chappell, T. D. J. “The Virtues of Thrasymachus.” Phronesis,
Vol. 38, No. 1, 1-17, 1993.
Explains Thrasymachus’s coherent,
consistent position on justice and virtue.
R4. Colwell, Gary G. "Plato, Woody Allen, and Justice" Teaching
Philosophy, 14(4), 399-407,
Dec 91. Colwell argues that
Allen's movie "Crimes and Misdemeanors" illustrates the main
theme of the Republic.
R5. De Chiara-Quenzer, Deborah. “To Lie or Not to Lie: Plato’s Republic.”
Polis,
Vol 13, No. 1-
2, 1994, 31-45. Very thoughtful
treatment of lying.
R6. Donohue, Brian. “The Dramatic Significance of Cephalus in
Plato’s Republic.” Teaching
Philosophy, 20:3, Sept.
1997, 239-249. Why does Plato have Cephalus begin
the conversation, then leave and
never return?
R7. Flew, A. G. N. "Responding to Plato's Thrasymachus" Philosophy,
70, 436-447, 1995. He
says Thrasymachus is basically right,
Socrates mostly wrong.
R8. Goldsmith, M. M. “Glaucon’s Challenge.” Australasian
Journal of Philosophy, Vol. 73,
No. 3, Sept. 1995, 356-367.
Detailed analysis of Glaucon’s three points in Book 2, and
Socrates’ response; two very different
approaches to morality are revealed.
R9. Halverson, John. “Plato’s Republic and Ours,” Critical
Review, 5(4), 453-473,
1992. Argues that the U.S. today is
very much like the Ideal Society of the Republic.
R10. Hourani, G. F. "Thrasymachus' Definition of Justice in Plato's
Republic." Phronesis, Vol. 7
(1962): 110-120. Strongly
disagrees with Kerferd (‘47) about what Thrasymachus means.
R11. Kerferd, G. B. "The Doctrine of Thrasymachus in Plato’s Republic.”
Durham
University
Journal 9 (1947-48):
19-27. A subtle, careful analysis of Thrasymachus’s view of justice
and injustice.
R12. Kerferd, G. B. "Thrasymachus and Justice: A Reply"
Phronesis
9 (1964): 12-16.
Responds to Hourani’s
criticism of his 1947 article.
R13. Lidz, Joel Warren. "Reflections On and In Plato's Cave" Interpretation,
21(2),
115-134, Winter
1993-94. Claims that most philosophers have not seen the multiple
mythic
meanings of
the cave parable.
R14. Nicholson, P. P. "Unravelling Thrasymachus' Arguments in
the Republic,” Phronesis 19
(1974): 210-232.
A survey of interpretations of Thrasymachus, and a defense of one.
R15. Page, Carl. “The Unnamed Fifth: Republic 369d.” Interpretation,
Vol. 21, No. 1, Fall
1993, 3-14. He makes
a big deal of two little words: “or five”
R16. Parry, Richard D. “Morality and Happiness: Book IV of Plato’s
Republic.” Journal of
Education,
Vol. 178, No. 3, 1996, 31-47. An extremely
clear and helpful explanation of Socrates’
understanding of justice!
R17. Reeve, C.D.C. "Socrates Meets Thrasymachus" Archiv
fur Geschichte der
Philosophie,
67(1985):246-265. A recent and interesting interpretation: Thrasymachus
has
two impressive arguments
that Socrates doesn’t answer at all well.
R18. Rosenstock, Bruce. “Athena’s Cloak: Plato’s Critique of the Democratic
City in the
Republic.” Political
Theory, Vol. 22, No. 3, August 1994, 363-390. Detailed elaboration
of
what Socrates says about
democracy in Book 8.
R19. Sprague, Rosamond Kent. “Republic I.” Ch. 5 in Plato’s
Philosopher-King by R.
K. Sprague.
U. of South Carolina Press, 1976, 57-74. A very nice and detailed
outline,
with some interesting
interpretations, of Book 1.
R20. Zyskind, Harold. “Plato’s Republic Book 1: An Equitable Rhetoric.”
Philosophy
and
Rhetoric, Vol. 25,
No. 3, 1992, 205-221. Analyzes Book I as a drama, and ponders
what
it is supposed to teach
us.
R21. Losin, Peter. “Education and Plato’s Parable of the Cave.”
Journal
of Education, Vol.178,
No. 3, 1996, 49-65.
Explains the vision of how education should be reorientation, as shown
by the Cave parable.
R22. Phillips, D. Z. “Glaucon’s Challenges.” Philosophical
Investigations, Vo. 17, No. 3, July
1994, 536-51. Glaucon’s
three points in Book 2 involve serious misunderstanding of what
justice and morality
really are.
R23. Steinberger, Peter J. “Who Is Cephalus?” Political Theory,
Vol. 24, No. 2, May 1996,
172-199. Analysis
of Cephalus’s character, which turns out to be not very admirable.
R24. Blair, Elena. “Women: the Unrecognized Teachers of the Platonic
Socrates.” Ancient
Philosophy,
Vol. 16, 1996, 333-350.
R25. Fell, Gilbert S. “The ‘Noble Lie’ and the ‘Clash of
Civilizations.’” Contemporary
Philosophy,
Vol.19, No. 1-2, 53-57. Why does Socrates base his city on a blatant
lie?
R26. Dombrowski, D. “Plato’s ‘Noble’ Lie.” History
of Political Thought, Vol.18,
No.4, Winter
1997, 565-578. Relates the Noble Lie to recent political theory.
R27. Putterman, Th. “Socrates’ Thrasymachus: The Extent
of their Agreement,” Philosophical
Inquiry, Vol.19,
No.3-4, 1997, 62-73. It's very small, but very significant.
R28. Jang, In Ha. “Socrates’ Refutation of Thrasymachus,”
History
of Political Thought,
Vol.18, No.2, Summer
1997, 189-206. Detailed analysis of almost all of Book 1.
R29. Hatzistavrou, A. "Thrasymachus' Definition of Justice," Philosophical
Inquiry, Vol. 20,
No. 1-2, 1998, 62-82.
Analyzes what "the interest of the stronger" really means.