Plato and the individual / H.D. Rankin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rankin, H. D., author.

Series:

Routledge Library Editions: Plato

Routledge library editions. Plato ; v. 15

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Plato.

Individualism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (161 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon : Routledge, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book explores the life-history of the individual within the context of Plato's social thought. The author examines Plato's treatment of the principal crises in an individual life - birth, educational selection, sex, the individual's contract with society, old age, death, and life after death - and provides an unprecedented analysis of Plato's theory of genetics as it appears in the Timaeus. Comparisons are made with contemporary developments in anthropology, sociology, and comparative myth but without losing sight of the fact that Plato, whilst having much to say to the modern world, w

Contents:

PLATO AND THE INDIVIDUAL; Copyright; Plato and the Individual; Copyright; Contents; Foreword; Chapter I The Theme of the Individual; Chapter II Beginnings; Chapter III A Hesitant Eugenic; Chapter IV Magic Thinking and Selection by Merit; Chapter V Man, Woman, and Eros; Chapter VI The Individual's Contract; Chapter VII Old Age, Thanatos, and Last Things; Chapter VIII Facing the Ideal Society; Citations of Plato's Works; Index

Notes:

First published in 1964 by Methuen & Co. Ltd.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.

ISBN:

0-203-10157-X

1-283-86171-2

1-136-23596-5

9780203101575

OCLC:

823387016