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Teaching Wisdom to Interest: Book Five of Plato'sRepublic

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 January 2009

Timothy J. Lukes  and
Mary F. Scudder
Timothy J. Lukes
Affiliation:
Santa Clara University
Mary F. Scudder
Affiliation:
University of Virginia
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Abstract

We suggest that Book Five of the Republic, wherePlato discusses the status of women in the guardian class, is asuperb source of Platonic insight. For it is precisely thediscussion of women that is most vulnerable to co-optation by themodern vernacular of interest, a vernacular to which theRepublic is vehemently opposed. If studentscome to appreciate an alternative perspective regarding this mostsensitive of modern issues, the full impact of the Socratic approachis available to them.

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PS: Political Science & Politics , Volume 42 , Issue 1 , January 2009 , pp. 197 - 200
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Copyright © American Political Science Association 2009

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