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Plato : political philosophy / Malcolm Schofield.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Schofield, Malcolm, author.
- Series:
- Founders of modern political and social thought.
- Oxford scholarship online.
- Founders of modern political and social thought
- Oxford scholarship online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Plato--Political and social views.
- Plato.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (395 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2023.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Schofield offers an accessible guide to Plato's political thought, enormously influential and much discussed in the modern world as well as the ancient. Plato's ideas on education, democracy and its shortcomings, the role of knowledge in government, and utopia and the idea of community are discussed.
- 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.
- Notes:
- Formerly CIP.
- Previously issued in print: 2006.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [334]-359) and indexes.
- Derived record based on print version record and publisher information.
- ISBN:
- 1-383-03884-8
- 1-281-16403-8
- 9786611164034
- 0-19-153043-3
- OCLC:
- 609832231
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