Liberty Democracy And The Temptations To Tyranny In The Dialogues Of Plato

Author : Charlotte C. S. Thomas
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780881467857
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Liberty, Democracy, and the Temptations to Tyranny in the Dialogues of Plato written by Charlotte C. S. Thomas and published by . This book was released on 2021-03 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on the 2019 A.V. Elliott Conference on Great Books and Ideas at Mercer University, eleven scholars take up some of the complex questions that emerge when one considers carefully how Plato presents democracy and liberty in the dialogues, particularly in terms of the threats they seem to pose to justice and philosophy. When Athens lost the Peloponnesian War, the Athenian people also lost their democratic constitution for a brief but brutal time. Plato wrote his dialogues and founded his Academy in the early days of Athens's newly restored democratic regime, the regime that executed Socrates. But, he set most of the dialogues in the days leading up to Athens's downfall. Plato presents Socrates as so deeply committed to Athens that he would not consider living anywhere else, even when the Athenians intend to execute him. The authors whose essays are collected in this volume explore these tensions deeply and with great attention to the subtleties and complexities of Plato's texts.

Author : Peter J. Ahrensdorf
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107124700
Total Pages : 335 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Homer and the Tradition of Political Philosophy written by Peter J. Ahrensdorf and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2022-08-25 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shows that Homer was a philosophic thinker who played a crucial role in the thought of Plato, Machiavelli, and Nietzsche.

Author : Greg Recco
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 0739123270
Total Pages : 263 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Athens Victorious written by Greg Recco and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2009 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Plato's Republic is typically thought to recommend a form of government that, from our current perspective, seems perniciously totalitarian. Athens Victorious demonstrates that Plato intended quite the opposite: to demonstrate the superiorityof a democratic constitution. Greg Recco provides a brilliant rereading of Book Eight. Often considered an anticlimax, Book Eight seems to be a mere catalogue of mistakes but is in fact one of Plato's most neglected literary creations: a mythic or epic restaging of the Peloponnesian War that pitted Sparta's militaristic oligarchy against Athens' democracy. In Plato's reenactment, Athens wins. Recco argues that the values identified in Book Eight as distinctively democratic were the very ones that served as the unannounced touchstones of moral and political judgment throughout the dialogue.Athens Victorious is an important reinterpretation ofThe Republic. It is an excellent resource for students and scholars of Classical Studies, Philosophy, and Political Theory.

Author : Anders Sorensen
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004326197
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Plato on Democracy and Political technē written by Anders Sorensen and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2016-09-12 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Plato on Democracy and Political technē Anders Dahl Sørensen offers an in-depth investigation of Plato’s discussions of democracy’s ‘epistemic potential’, arguing that this question is far more central to his political thought than is usually assumed.

Author : Cinzia Arruzza
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780190678883
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Wolf in the City written by Cinzia Arruzza and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Linda Vuskane
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3640762037
Total Pages : 7 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book About Plato's ideas regarding political organisation written by Linda Vuskane and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2010-11-26 with total page 7 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essay from the year 2009 in the subject Politics - Political Theory and the History of Ideas Journal, grade: 72%, Liverpool John Moores University, language: English, abstract: Following a short overview of Plato’s life and the political situation of his time, this paper describes and analyses Plato’s ideas regarding political organisation, including aristocracy, timocracy, oligarchy, democracy and tyranny and further examines whether these ideas have any relevance nowadays. In addition, the paper touches on Plato’s ideas about the ideal state and his famous allegory of the cave. The paper concludes that, even if many Plato’s ideas seem very alien to us, some ideas, particularly the moral and spiritual dimension of political life, are still very relevant today.

Author : Plato
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 798 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Laws. Index to the writings of Plato written by Plato and published by . This book was released on 1892 with total page 798 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Ivan Jordovic
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9783515124584
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Taming Politics written by Ivan Jordovic and published by . This book was released on with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Kyriakos N. Dēmētriou
Publisher : Peter Lang Publishing
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book George Grote on Plato and Athenian Democracy written by Kyriakos N. Dēmētriou and published by Peter Lang Publishing. This book was released on 1999 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Mogens Herman Hansen
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 54 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Was Athens a Democracy? written by Mogens Herman Hansen and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: