The Music of the Republic

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"The title essay...is a miniature masterpiece, one of the most seminal writings of our time on Plato's Republic."--John Sallis

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Preface	p. xiii
Introduction to the Phaedo	p. 3
Socrates' Legacy: Plato's Phaedo	p. 36
The Offense of Socrates: Apology	p. 42
The Tyrant's Temperance: Cbarmides	p. 66
Introduction to Reading the Republic	p. 88
The Music of the Republic	p. 108
Why Justice? The Answer of the Republic	p. 246
Imitative Poetry: Book X of the Republic	p. 256
Time in the Timaeus	p. 273
Introduction to the Sophist	p. 278
Nonbeing Enfolded in Being: The Sophist	p. 294
On Translating the Sophist	p. 304
Plato's "Theory of Ideas"	p. 320
"Teaching Plato" to Undergraduates	p. 344
Notes	p. 353
Sources and Acknowledgments	p. 367
Index	p. 369
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