Platonopolis : Platonic political philosophy in late antiquity / Dominic J. O'Meara.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

O'Meara, Dominic J.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Platonists.

Political science--Philosophy.

Political science.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (262 p.)

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2003.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Conventional wisdom suggests that the Platonist philosophers of Late Antiquity, from Plotinus (third century) to the sixth-century schools in Athens and Alexandria, neglected the political dimension of their Platonic heritage in their concentration on an otherworldly life. Dominic O'Meara presents a revelatory reappraisal of these thinkers, arguing that their otherworldliness involved rather than excluded political ideas, and he proposes for the first time a reconstruction of theirpolitical philosophy, their conception of the function, structure, and contents of political science, and its rela

Contents:

Contents; Abbreviations; INTRODUCTION; PART I. NEOPLATONIC POLITICAL THEORY RECONSTRUCTED: THE DIVINIZATION OF SOUL; PART II. NEOPLATONIC POLITICAL THEORY RECONSTRUCTED: THE DIVINIZATION OF THE STATE; PART III. PLATONOPOLIS IN CHRISTIANITY AND ISLAM; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index of Names and Subjects; Index of Passages

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 213-229) and indexes.

ISBN:

1-282-06082-1

9786612060823

0-19-153152-9

OCLC:

123130931