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116The Interaction between the Just City and its Citizens in Plato’s Republic: From the Producers’ Point of ViewJournal of the History of Philosophy 52 (2): 183-203. 2014.In Plato’s Republic, Socrates Famously argues that a just city has to have three distinct classes performing three distinct functions. The producer class is the largest of the three, with the job of taking care of the city’s material needs. It is widely accepted that individual producers in this class are appetitive—appetitive in the sense that they only value bodily and material goods as intrinsic goods and conduct their lives only to maximize those goods.1 In this paper, I want to argue agains…Read more
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Metropolitan State University of DenverDepartment of PhilosophyOther faculty (Postdoc, Visiting, etc)
Denver, Colorado, United States of America
Areas of Interest
Social and Political Philosophy |
Ancient Greek and Roman Philosophy |