CL 367 - Plato's Republic

(3.00 cr.)

Prerequisite: PL 201 and one additional PL200-level course. An examination of the teachings contained in one of the most important of the Platonic dialogues. A close study of the dialogue and lectures treats the nature of justice, the quarrel between poetry and philosophy, relationship between philosophy and politics or theology, the character of the philosopher, the purposes of education, the doctrine of "ideas," and the naturality of political life. Same course as PL 367 .