| Description |
1 online resource (x, 384 pages). |
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Founders of modern political and social thought |
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Founders of modern political and social thought.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 334-359) and indexes. |
| Contents |
Introduction -- The Republic : contexts and projects -- The centrepiece -- Some dubious Platonic autobiography -- Socrates : engagement and detachment -- The projects of The Republic -- Education, Sparta and the politeia tradition -- Athens, democracy and freedom -- Democratic entanglements -- Democracy and rhetoric -- The laws on democracy and freedom -- Problematizing democracy -- From polarity to complexity -- Democracy, equality and freedom -- Democracy and pluralism -- Democracy and anarchy -- Democracy and knowledge -- The rule of knowledge -- Philosophy or political expertise? -- Mill and Jowett on Plato -- Architectonic knowledge -- Philosopher rulers -- Architectonic knowledge revisited -- The limitations of management -- Utopia -- Against utopia -- A question of seriousness -- A future for utopianism -- Plato's utopian realism -- The idea of community -- Epilogue : the question of fantasy -- Money and the soul -- The ethics and politics of money -- The analogy of city and soul -- The psychology of money -- Greed, power and injustice -- Taming the beast within -- Ideology -- Ideology and religion -- The noble lie -- Law and religion. |
| Note |
Print version record. |
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Use copy Restrictions unspecified star MiAaHDL |
| Reproduction |
Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2011. MiAaHDL |
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Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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| Summary |
Plato is the best known and most widely studied of all the ancient Greek philosophers. Malcolm Schofield, a leading scholar of ancient philosophy, offers a lucid and accessible guide to Plato's political thought, enormously influential and much discussed in the modern world as well as the ancient. Schofield discusses Plato's ideas on education, democracy and its shortcomings, the role of knowledge in government, utopia and the idea of community, money and its grip on the psyche, . and ideological uses of religion. - ;The Founders of Modern Political and Social Thought series presents critical e. |
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Plato -- Political and social views.
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Plato -- Political and social views.
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Plato. (OCoLC)fst00046610
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Plato.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- General.
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Political and social views. (OCoLC)fst01353986
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Politieke filosofie.
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Politische Philosophie.
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Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Schofield, Malcolm. Plato. Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2006 0199249466 019924961X (DLC) 2006016279 (OCoLC)69593908 |
| ISBN |
9780191530432 (electronic bk.) |
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0191530433 (electronic bk.) |
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