Necessity and Philosophy in Plato's Republic

"""In the past few decades, there has been significant attention paid to the ways in which vegetal and non-human animal life figures centrally in the drama of Plato's masterpiece and to the ways in which these representations compare to the depiction of material and soul, as creation and creature, in Timaeus. Winslow draws upon the findings of this important work to offer the first comprehensive analysis of the system of necessity that undergirds, or perhaps to stay with his organicism, provides the fertile soil for the contest of the just and unjust soul that constitutes the central argumentative concern of Republic. However intrinsically attuned other readers of Plato may be, we all stand to benefit greatly from careful consideration of this genuinely novel reading of this incredibly well-read text."" --Michael Weinman, Indiana University"