Woodrow
Wilson Department of Politics
PLPT 506 G. Klosko
Plato and Aristotle
248-B
Cabell; x3192
Spring 2003 gk@virginia.edu
Books
have been ordered at the University bookstore and should be purchased if at all
possible. They are also on reserve in
Clemons Library.
Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian Wars, R. Warner, tr. (Penguin,
paperback), Selections.
I, 1-23 (pp. 35-49)
Introduction
I, 66-88 (pp. 72-87)
Debate at Sparta
I, 89-117 (pp. 87-103)
The Rise of Athens
I, 118-125 (pp. 103-08)
Congress at Sparta
I, 139-146 (pp. 118-23)
Pericles' Strategy
II, 1-65 (pp. 124-64)
Pericles and Athens early in the war
III, 36-49 (pp. 212-23)
Mitylene
III, 51-68 (pp. 223-36)
Doom of Plataea
III, 70-85 (pp. 236-45)
Civil War in Corcyra
IV, 17-23 (pp. 274-78)
Pylos
V, 63-74 (pp. 388-95)
Battle of Mantinea
V, 84-116 (pp. 400-08)
Melian Dialogue
VI, 8 - VII, 87 (pp.
414-537) Sicilian Expedition
Plato, The
Collected Dialogues, Including the Letters, J. Cooper, ed. (Hackett,
clothbound)
The Platonic Socrates: Hippias
Minor, Ion, Laches, Symposium, Apology, Crito,
Protagoras
Plato: Gorgias, Republic,
Statesman, Epistle 7, Laws.
Aristotle, The Ethics, J.A.K.
Thompson, tr. (Penguin, paperback), Selections.
Requirements
Aside
from doing the reading and discussing it, there are three written requirements.
1. Optional midterm and final
examinations.
2. Analytical paper, 12-15 pages; due Wednesday, 23 April. Papers must be handed in on time. Late papers will be penalized. Incompletes will not be given.
Grading: If you choose to do the midterm, it will count 25%
of your grade, with paper and final exam each counting 37.5%. If you do not do the midterm, paper and final
exam will count 50% each. Class participation will figure in on top of
this, with good participation significantly helping your grade.
Secondary Works
I have placed the
following works on reserve.
E. Barker, Greek
Political Theory: Plato and His Predecessors (London, 1918; rpt. 1947).
P. Friedlander, Plato, 3
vols., H. Meyerhoff, trans. (Princeton, 1959-68).
W.K.C. Guthrie, A History of
Greek Philosophy, 6 vols. (Cambridge, 1962-81), Vols. 4-6.
W.F.R. Hardie, Aristotle's
Ethical Theory, 2nd ed. (Oxford, 1982).
W. Jaeger, Paideia, 3
vols., G. Highett, trans. (Oxford, 1939-45)
G. Klosko, The Development
of Plato's Political Theory (New York, 1986).
G. Morrow, Plato's Cretan
City (Princeton, 1960).
R.G. Mulgan, Aristotle's
Political Theory (Oxford, 1977).
K. Popper, The Open Society
and Its Enemies, Vol. I, The Spell of Plato (Princeton, 1966)
W.D. Ross, Aristotle
(London, 1923).
P. Shorey, What Plato Said
(Chicago, 1933)
A.E. Taylor, Plato: The Man
and His Work, 6th ed. (1952; rpt. Cleveland, 1956).
General Bibliography
(1) Background (These too are
on reserve in Clemons)
A.W.H. Adkins, Merit and
Responsibility (Oxford, 1960).
V. Ehrenberg, From Solon to
Socrates, 2nd ed. (London, 1973)
________., The Greek State
(Oxford, 1960).
M. I. Finley, Politics in
the Ancient World (Cambridge, 1983)
N.G.L. Hammond, A History of
Greece to 322 B.C., 2nd ed. (Oxford, 1967).
A.H.M. Jones, Athenian
Democracy (Oxford, 1957).
T.A. Sinclair, A History of
Greek Political Thought, 2nd ed. (London, 1967).
D. Stockton, The Classical
Athenian Democracy (Oxford, 1990).
(2) On Thucydides:
F.M. Cornford, Thucydides
Mythistoricus (1907; rpt. Philadelphia, 1972)
J. Finley, Thucydides
(Cambridge, Mass., 1942).
W. Jaeger, Paideia, Vol.
I, 382-411.
(3) On Plato:
J. Adam, ed. The Republic of
Plato, 2 vols. (Cambridge, 1902).
J. Annas, An Introduction to
Plato's Republic (Oxford, 1981).
E. Barker, Greek Political
Theory: Plato and His Predecessors (London, 1918; rpt. 1947).
C. Bobonich, Plato's Utopia
Recast (Oxford, 2002).
R. Cross and A.D. Woozley, Plato's
Republic: A Philosophical Introduction (London, 1964).
E. R. Dodds, ed., Plato:
Gorgias (Oxford, 1959).
G. C. Field, Plato and His
Contemporaries, 3rd ed. (London, 1967).
P. Friedlander, Plato, 3
vols. (Princeton, 1958‑69).
J. C. B. Gosling, Plato
(London, 1973).
W.K.C. Guthrie, A History of
Greek Philosophy, 6 vols. (Cambridge, 1962-81), Vols. 4-5.
T. Irwin, ed. and trans., Plato:
Gorgias (Oxford, 1979).
________, Plato's Ethics
(Oxford, 1995).
W. Jaeger, Paideia, Vol.
II; III, 213-62.
G. Klosko, The Development
of Plato's Political Theory (New York, 1986).
R. Kraut, Socrates and the
State (Princeton, 1984).
G. Morrow, Plato's Cretan
City (Princeton, 1960).
N.R. Murphy, The
Interpretation of Plato's Republic (Oxford, 1951).
R.L. Nettleship, Lectures on
the Republic of Plato, 2nd ed. (London, 1901).
S. M. Okin, Women in Western
Political Thought (Princeton, 1979), Chaps. 1-3.
K. Popper, The Open Society
and Its Enemies, 2 vols. (Princeton, 1966), Vol. I.
R. Robinson, Plato's Earlier
Dialectic, 2nd ed. (Oxford, 1953).
P. Shorey, The Unity of
Plato's Thought (Chicago, 1903).
________, What Plato Said
(Chicago, 1933)
R.F. Stalley, An
Introduction to Plato's Laws (Indianapolis, 1983).
L. Strauss, The City and Man
(Chicago, 1964).
A.E. Taylor, Plato: The Man
and His Work, 6th ed. (1952; rpt. Cleveland, 1956).
G. Vlastos, ed., Plato: A
Collection of Critical Essays, 2 vols. (Garden City, N. Y., 1971).
________, Socrates, Ironist
and Moral Philosopher (Ithaca, 1991).
(4) On Aristotle:
E. Barker, ed. and tr. The
Poltics of Aristotle (Oxford, 1946).
J. Cooper, Reason and Human
Good in Aristotle (Cambridge, Mass., 1975).
W.K.C. Guthrie, A History of
Greek Philosophy, 6 vols. (Cambridge, 1962-81), Vol. 6.
W.F.R. Hardie, Aristotle's
Ethical Theory, 2nd ed. (Oxford, 1982).
W. Jaeger, Aristotle:
Fundamentals of the History of His Development (Oxford, 1948).
R. Kraut, Aristotle on the
Human Good (Princeton, 1989).
R. Kraut, Aristotle
(Oxford, 2002).
G.E.R. Lloyd, Aristotle
(Cambridge, 1968).
F. Miller, Nature, Justice,
and Rights in Aristotle's Politics (Oxford, 1995).
R.G. Mulgan, Aristotle's
Political Theory (Oxford, 1977).
W. Newman, ed., The Politics
of Aristotle, 4 vols. (Oxford, 1887-2002).
S. M. Okin, Women in Western
Political Thought (Princeton, 1979), Chap. 4.
A. Rorty, ed., Essays on
Aristotle's Ethics (Berkeley, 1980).
W.D. Ross, Aristotle (London, 1923).