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Justice and Prudence: Principles of Order in the Platonic City

There is an imbalance in many general accounts of the Platonic dialogues. It involves an over-emphasis on a dualism between matter and spirit, body and mind. Of course, it is impossible to deny such a dualism, which ultimately derives from the pervasive ancient Greek division of reality into shaping mind and form, on the one hand, and unformed material chaos, on the other. However, Plato's dialogues are not dominated by such a dualism. Often, it has been said that Plato unambiguously denigrated life in body, time, society, history, myth, ritual, mimesis and poetry; in fact, in physical mediations of all...