Plato [electronic resource] : political philosophy / Malcolm Schofield.
Schofield, Malcolm.
2006
JC71.P62 S36 2006eb
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Title Plato [electronic resource] : political philosophy / Malcolm Schofield.
Author Schofield, Malcolm.
ISBN 9780191530432 (electronic bk.)
0199249466 (pbk.)
019924961X
9780199249466 (pbk.)
9780199249619
Publication Details Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2006.
Language English
Description 1 online resource (x, 384 p.)
Call Number JC71.P62 S36 2006eb
Dewey Decimal Classification 321/.07
Summary "In this general account of Plato's political thought, a leading scholar of ancient Greek philosophy explores its key themes: education, democracy and its shortcomings, the role of knowledge in government, utopia and the idea of community, money and its grip on the psyche, ideological uses of religion. Between them these define what Plato considered to be the fundamental challenges for politics. All remain live issues. On all of them Plato took radical and uncomfortable positions." "Assuming a broad range of readers - with backgrounds in varied fields (politics, philosophy, classics, history) - Malcolm Schofield articulates and analyses Plato's main lines of thought, illustrating them with a liberal use of translated excerpts, and highlighting affinities with modern theorists from Machiavelli and Mill to Rawls and Habermas. Schofield's distinctive approach to Plato's problems constitutes a lucid and accessible guide for those needing an introduction, and at the same time will provide those who know Plato well with much food for thought."--BOOK JACKET.
Note Description based on print version record.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references (p. [334]-359) and indexes.
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Series Founders of modern political and social thought.
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Introduction
The Republic : contexts and projects
The centrepiece
Some dubious Platonic autobiography
Socrates : engagement and detachment
The projects of The Republic
Education, Sparta and the politeia tradition
Athens, democracy and freedom
Democratic entanglements
Democracy and rhetoric
The laws on democracy and freedom
Problematizing democracy
From polarity to complexity
Democracy, equality and freedom
Democracy and pluralism
Democracy and anarchy
Democracy and knowledge
The rule of knowledge
Philosophy or political expertise?
Mill and Jowett on Plato
Architectonic knowledge
Philosopher rulers
Architectonic knowledge revisited
The limitations of management
Utopia
Against utopia
A question of seriousness
A future for utopianism
Plato's utopian realism
The idea of community
Epilogue : the question of fantasy
Money and the soul
The ethics and politics of money
The analogy of city and soul
The psychology of money
Greed, power and injustice
Taming the beast within
Ideology
Ideology and religion
The noble lie
Law and religion.

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