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12Roslyn Weiss, Philosophers in the Republic: Plato’s Two Paradigms , xi + 236 pp., $49.95, ISBN 9780801449741 (review)Polis 30 (2): 373-376. 2013.
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134Early Education in Plato's RepublicBritish Journal for the History of Philosophy 23 (5): 843-863. 2015.In this paper, I reconsider the commonly held position that the early moral education of the Republic is arational since the youths of the Kallipolis do not yet have the capacity for reason. I argue that, because they receive an extensive mathematical education alongside their moral education, the youths not only have a capacity for reason but that capacity is being developed in their early education. If this is so, though, then we must rethink why the early moral education is arational. I argue…Read more
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Areas of Interest
Epistemology |
Normative Ethics |
Ancient Greek and Roman Philosophy |