Format:
Online-Ressource (418 p)
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2013 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
ISBN:
9781107020221
Content:
Explores how politeia (constitution) structures both political and extra-political relations throughout the entire range of Greek and Roman thought
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Description based upon print version of record
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Contents; Contributors; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Part I The Vocabulary of Politics; Chapter one The political art in Platos Republic; Philosophers or political specialists?; The foundation of Kallipolis and the distinctness of the political art; Philosophy and phulakik; Chapter two Putting history in its place: Plato, Thucydides, and the Athenian politeia; Plato as scavenger?; The philosopher's quarrel with the historian; The structure of historical explanation; The content of historical explanation; The real sources of disunity: the Dorian League and Sparta
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Compare constitutions: Persia and AthensDon't copy power: Minos and Athens; Re-placing history and democracy; Chapter three Platonizing the Spartan politeia in Plutarchs Lycurgus; I: Law and writing in Plato; II: Law and writing in Plutarch; Conclusion; Chapter four The body politic: Aëtius on Alcmaeon on isonomia and monarchia; I; II; III; IV; V; VI; VII; Chapter five Latin philosophy and Roman law; I: Influence of philosophy on law and vice versa; II: The prevalence of legal terminology in Latin writers; III: Metaphorical use of legal terms
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IV: The styles of legal and philosophical discourse comparedV: Philosophical concepts explained by legal ones; VI: The slide from metaphor to legal reality; VII: Legal and philosophical standards of conduct compared; VIII: The purpose of talking law; Part II The Practice of Politics; Chapter six The Platonic manufacture of ideology, or how to assemble awkward truth and wholesome falsehood; Title 1: ideology; Title 2: assembling truth and falsehood; Title 3: Platonic manufacture?!; Chapter seven Platos politics of ignorance; Ignorance and knowledge; Ignorance and lies
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Chapter eight The political skill of ProtagorasChapter nine Proclus and politics; Part III The Politics of Value; Chapter ten Relativism in Platos Protagoras; Introduction; Protagorean methods; What Protagoras says: (a) relativistic moves; What Protagoras says: (b) things that seem un-protagorean; The hedonism argument: why?; Problems for Protagoras: the discussion of future pleasures in Protagoras and Theaetetus; A protagorean solution: the pleasure of achievement; Conclusion; Chapter eleven Justice writ large and small in Republic 4; Justice in the city defined
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Justice in the city: the definition confirmedJustice in the individual: the status quaestionis; Justice in the individual defined; Justice in the individual: the definition confirmed; Chapter twelve An aesthetic reading of Aristotles Ethics; Does Aristotle think of ethical activity as beautiful?; Some evidence for an aesthetic reading; Doubts about the aesthetic reading; Some further passages; Aesthetic elements of ethical life; Beauty and benefit; Chapter thirteen The Stoic sage in the Original Position; I; II; III; IV; V; VI; VII; VIII; IX
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Part IV Politics Extended: Animals, Gods, Cosmology
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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781107247628
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781107020221
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Politeia in Greek and Roman Philosophy
Language:
English
Keywords:
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