HTA 4.1; Plato; Republic [380 BCE]; excerpts from Books VI and VII

Abstract

This episode is part one of two of the lecture series [HTA 4] on Plato’s Republic, excerpts from Books VI and VII.

Primary Source

Plato. “Republic.” In The Complete Works, edited by John M. Cooper with assoc. ed. D.S. Hutchinson, translated by G.M.A. Grube with rev. C.D.C. Reeve, 971–1003, 1052–77, 1126–55. Indianapolis/Cambridge: Hackett Publishing Company, Inc., 1997.

• HillJ_ Teacher Exemplar Annotations.

Guiding Questions

• How does the Form of the Good illuminate experience? (Book VI; pp. 1127-30)

• Is the visible or the intelligible realm of being clearer to the mind? (Book VI; pp. 1130-32)

• How is the instrument [organ] of learning revealed through the Allegory of the Cave? (Book VII; pp. 1132-55)