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Plato : political philosophy
- Title
- Plato : political philosophy / Malcolm Schofield.
- Author
- Schofield, Malcolm.
- Publication
- Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2006.
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Details
- Description
- x, 384 p.; 24 cm.
- Series Statement
- Founders of modern political and social thought
- Subject
- Plato > Political and social views
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [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.
- Call Number
- JFE 06-12567
- ISBN
- 0199249466 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- 019924961X (hbk. : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2006016279
- 9780199249466
- 9780199249619
- OCLC
- 69593908
- Author
- Schofield, Malcolm.
- Title
- Plato : political philosophy / Malcolm Schofield.
- Imprint
- Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2006.
- Series
- Founders of modern political and social thought
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [334]-359) and indexes.
- Connect to:
- Other Standard Identifier
- 97801992494669780199249619
- Research Call Number
- JFE 06-12567