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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 # 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