Plato : Political Philosophy

ISBN-13: 9780199249619 / Angielski / Twarda / 2006 / 396 str.

Malcolm Schofield

Opis

Plato is the best known and most widely studied of all the ancient Greek philosophers. Malcolm Schofield, a leading scholar of ancient philosophy, offers a lucid and accessible guide to Plato's political thought, enormously influential and much discussed in the modern world as well as the ancient. Schofield discusses Plato's ideas on education, democracy and its shortcomings, the role of knowledge in government, utopia and the idea of community, money and its grip on the psyche, and ideological uses of religion.

Recenzje

a splendid and lively work...Any reader interested in Plato's political thought would benefit greatly from reading and thinking about this excellent book.