Plato's exceptional city, love, and philosopher / Nickolas Pappas.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Pappas, Nickolas, 1960- author.

Contributor:

Taylor & Francis eBooks.

Rev. C. P. Krauth Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Plato.

Love--Philosophy.

Love.

Political science--Philosophy.

Political science.

Philosophers.

Philosophy, Ancient.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (x, 292 pages)

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2021.

[Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], [2021]

System Details:

text file

Contents:

Part I: Why Love Must Be Good : kinds of erôs in Plato's Symposium and Phaedrus. Congenital love : Aristophanic erôs in the Symposium ; Telling good love from bad : erôs in the Phaedrus

Part II: How a City is Made Better : The polis in Plato's Republic. Speaking of tyrants : Gyges and the Republic's city ; The news of the new city ; "And then I saw" : the myth of Er and the future city

Part III: Where to Find the Best Philosophers. The philosophos in Plato's Theaetetus, Sophist, and Statesman ; "You wise people" : The Ion on what sets a philosopher apart ; Philosophers at last : Theaetetus, Socrates, and the head philosopher ; The Sophist : the sophist with and without philosophy ; The Statesman : The little difference that makes philosophy.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Electronic reproduction. London Available via World Wide Web.

Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on July 24, 2020).

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rev. C. P. Krauth Fund.

Other Format:

Print version: Pappas, Nickolas, 1960- Plato's exceptional city, love, and philosopher

ISBN:

9781003005193

1003005195

9781000092844

1000092844

9781000092882

1000092887

9781000092868

1000092860

Publisher Number:

99985014094

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Restricted for use by site license.