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The Unity of the Platonic City

Donald C. Hodges and Christopher A. Pynes dismiss Catherine Pickstock's interpretation of justice and prudence as two ordering principles of the city in Plato.¹ They contend that the Republic features not one, but two cities, that Plato's account in the Republic varies substantially from that in the Statesman and the Laws, and that Plato's main interlocutor (and, ultimately, opponent) is Socrates—not Aristotle. Under the postmodern imperative of being "fair to the text,"² they then proceed to outline what they believe to be the true story of the Republic—a "Tale of Two Cities": Socrates' more genuinely communist and "frugal" Republic vs....