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Plato political philosophy
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- ISBN: 9780191530432 (electronic bk.)
- ISBN: 0191530433 (electronic bk.)
- ISBN: 0199249466 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- ISBN: 019924961X (hbk. : alk. paper)
- ISBN: 9780199249466 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- ISBN: 9780199249619 (hbk. : alk. paper)
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1 online resource (x, 384 p.) - Publisher: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2006.
Content descriptions
| General Note: | CatBulkString:jan.10.13 CatMonthString:jan.13 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. |
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| 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. |
