A Journey Into Platonic Politics (häftad)
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Häftad (Paperback / softback)
Språk
Engelska
Antal sidor
254
Utgivningsdatum
2004-04-01
Förlag
University Press of America
Illustrationer
black & white illustrations
Dimensioner
216 x 140 x 15 mm
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327 g
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1
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Paperback
ISBN
9780761826897

A Journey Into Platonic Politics

Plato's Laws

av Albert Keith Whitaker
Häftad,  Engelska, 2004-04-01
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"One should not take up the Laws as a plan for a new society nor as a means to critique one's own nation and its customs. Indeed, the Laws benefits most those readers who are comfortable in their lover for and allegiance to the standards and institutions of their time and place. Perhaps this claim sounds surprising. But it should surprise only those who believe that love and loyalty are deep set obstacles to thought and reflections. In contrast, such attachments, and not their facile critique, are precisely what lead us to take a healthy interest in and reflect fruitfully upon other people's ways. The characters of the Laws recognize this truth as well. They recommend that the highest body of the new city, a council of thinkers and legislators, young and old, should regularly send spies to other nations, to search out the "beauties" in their foreign habits, beauties that mightor might notbe able to be transplanted back to the council's city. The following study of the Laws attempts to do something of the same thing, to read Plato's dialogue as, in effect, a foreign country, through which readers are led as if they were on a mission for our own Nocturnal Council." Albert Keith Whitaker, from the Introduction
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What the reader will find in A Journey into Platonic Politics is an outstanding example of philosophical expositionOne could hardly ask for a better, more straightforward elucidation of Plato's final dialogue and I foresee this text becoming an essential guide for any who study the Laws. -- Kenneth Royce Moore, University of Edinburgh * Polis *

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Albert Keith Whitaker is Adjunct Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Boston College. He earned his Ph.D. from the Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago.

Innehållsförteckning

Chapter 1 Acknowledgments Chapter 2 Introduction Chapter 3 The End of the Road Chapter 4 Edifying Sod Chapter 5 The Old Time Baloney Chapter 6 Upholding the Law Chapter 7 Union, Now and Forever Chapter 8 Mixed Drinks Chapter 9 Peculiar Institutions Chapter 10 Mars and Venus Chapter 11 Doctor of Philosophy Chapter 12 The Blessings of Intolerance Chapter 13 Testaments Chapter 14 Point of Departure Chapter 15 Conclusion Chapter 16 Appendices Chapter 17 Bibliography Chapter 18 Index

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