Politeia in Greek and Roman philosophy / edited by Verity Harte and Melissa Lane.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Harte, Verity, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Plato. Republic.

Plato.

Constitution (Philosophy).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xv, 399 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Other Title:

<I>Politeia </I>in Greek & Roman Philosophy

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This is the first exploration of how ideas of politeia (constitution) structure both political and extra-political relations throughout the entirety of Greek and Roman philosophy, ranging from Presocratic to classical, Hellenistic, and Neoplatonic thought. A highly distinguished international team of scholars investigate topics such as the Athenian, Spartan and Platonic visions of politeia, the reshaping of Greek and Latin vocabularies of politics, the practice of politics in Plato and Proclus, the politics of value in Plato, Aristotle and the Stoics, and the extension of constitutional order to discussions of animals, gods and the cosmos. The volume is dedicated to Professor Malcolm Schofield, one of the world's leading scholars of ancient philosophy.

Contents:

Frontispiece: Drawing of Malcolm Schofield by Humphrey Ocean (1997)

Introduction / Verity Harte and Melissa Lane

The political art in Plato's Republic / Alexander Long

Putting history in its place: Plato, Thucydides, and the Athenian politeia / Cynthia Farrar

Platonizing the Spartan politeia in Plutarch's Lycurgus / Melissa Lane

The body politic: Aëtius on Alcmaeon on isonomia and monarchia / Jaap Mansfeld

Latin philosophy and Roman law / Miriam Griffin

The Platonic manufacture of ideology, or how to assemble awkward truth and wholesome falsehood / Robert Wardy

Plato's politics of ignorance / Verity Harte

The political skill of Protagoras / Nicholas Denyer

Proclus and politics / Jonathan Barnes

Relativism in Plato's Protagoras / Catherine Rowett

Justice writ large and small in Republic 4 / M.F. Burnyeat

An aesthetic reading of Aristotle's Ethics / Richard Kraut

The stoic sage in the original position / Mary Margaret McCabe

Aristotle on the natural sociability, skills and intelligence of animals / Geoffrey Lloyd

Gods and men in Xenophanes / James Warren

Socrates and his gods: from the Euthyphro to the Eudemian ethics / Christopher Rowe

The atheist underground / David Sedley.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-139-88877-3

1-107-24135-9

1-107-25094-3

1-107-24845-0

1-107-24762-4

1-107-25011-0

1-139-09684-2

OCLC:

852154614