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  1. Minding the gap in Plato's republic.Eric Brown - 2004 - Philosophical Studies 117 (1-2):275-302.
    At least since Sachs' well-known essay, readers of Plato's Republic have worried that there is a gap between the challenge posed to Socrates--to show that it is always in one's interest to act justly--and his response--to show that it is always in one's interest to have a just soul. The most popular response has been that Socrates fills this gap in Books Five through Seven by supposing that knowledge of the Forms motivates those with just souls to act justly. I (...)
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  • Images as Images: Commentary on Smith.David Roochnik - 1997 - Proceedings of the Boston Area Colloquium of Ancient Philosophy 13 (1):205-212.
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  • Just state and just man : a dialogue between Plato and Confucius. PhD thesis, University of Glasgow.Hsei-Yung Hsu - unknown
    In this thesis, I propose to explore Plato's moral and political thought in the Republic and compare it with similar ideas in Confucian thought, and in modern liberal thought. In Part I, I deal with Plato's notion of 'doing one's own job' in the just state (ch. 1), and with the Confucian approach to achieving an orderly society (ch. 2). In Chapter 3 the idea that both the Platonic just state and Confucian orderly society are communitarian by nature will be (...)
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