Female Drama

Plato's most magisterial dialogue, the REPUBLIC, takes up the question what is justice, and its central image is an imaginary city constructed in speech designed to aid in this inquiry. In Book V of the REPUBLIC, Socrates tells his interlocutors that they have completed the Male Drama, of the city in speech and that it is now time for them to take up the Female. The Female Drama is Socrates name for the action of the central books of the REPUBLIC: V-VII. Much has been made of what this transition in the REPUBLIC signifies for political questions. The REPUBLIC is not only concerned with politics or political justice, however. Like all of the images and arguments in the REPUBLIC, the Female Drama of the city in speech has meaning both for political and individual justice, but there has been no systematic inquiry into the central books of the REPUBLIC for their meaning for individual justice. That is the ambition of this book.

Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: Mercer University Press
Published: 03/02/2020
ISBN: 9780881467437
Pages: 301
Weight: 1.35lbs
Size: 9.20h x 6.20w x 1.30d