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CARLETON UNIVERSITY — LEARNING IN RETIREMENT
PLATO’S REPUBLIC
LATE SPRING 2017
Prof. D. Gregory MacIsaac
613-520-2600 x 1803
[email protected]
Office: Paterson Hall 2A40
Course Description
In this course we will read and discuss Plato’s Republic. Through the construction of an ideal
city, as a model for the human soul, Socrates argues that it is justice rather than injustice that
makes human beings happy.
Lectures
• Thursdays, 10:30AM to 12:30PM
• Room 124, Leeds House, Carleton University
Required Text
• Plato. Republic.
• Translations by Grube, Grube/Reeve, Bloom, or Cornford are fine. Please do not use
Jowett, or the free version on the internet (which is Jowett).
• Alternately, you can buy: Plato. Complete Works. Ed. John M. Cooper. Indianapolis/
Cambridge: Hackett, 1997.
LECTURES AND READINGS
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1
2
3
Date
20 April
27 April
4 May
4
5
18 May
6
25 May
1 June
Topic
What is justice?
Glaucon’s social contract
Justice in the city and in the
soul
The three waves
The Sun, the Line, and the
Cave
Decline of Justice in the City
and in the Soul; Myth of Er
Reading
Plato, Republic I
Plato, Republic II. 357a-368c
Plato, Republic II. 368cPlato, Republic V-VI. 502c
Plato, Republic VI. 502c-VII
Plato, Republic VIII-X
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