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Plato [electronic resource] : political philosophy / Malcolm Schofield.

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  • ISBN: 9780191530432 (electronic bk.)
  • ISBN: 0191530433 (electronic bk.)
  • Physical Description: 1 online resource (x, 384 p.)
  • Publisher: Oxford ; Oxford University Press, 2006.

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General Note:
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Multi-User.
Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. [334]-359) and indexes.
Formatted Contents Note:
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.
Restrictions on Access Note:
Restrictions unspecified
Reproduction Note:
Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2011.
System Details Note:
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
Action Note:
digitized 2011 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve
Source of Description Note:
Description based on print version record.
Subject: Plato > Political and social views.
Plato > Political and social views
Plato.
Plato.
Politieke filosofie.
Politische Philosophie.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > General.
Political and social views.
Genre: Electronic books.

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