Platonopolis: Platonic Political Philosophy in Late Antiquity

ISBN-13: 9780199285532 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 264 str.

Dominic J. O'Meara

Opis

Conventional wisdom suggests that the Platonist philosophers of Late Antiquity, from Plotinus (third century) to the sixth-century schools in Athens and Alexandria, neglected the political dimension of their Platonic heritage in their concentration on an otherworldly life. But Dominic O'Meara presents a revelatory reappraisal of these thinkers, arguing that their otherworldliness involved rather than excluded political ideas, and he reconstructs for the first time a coherent political philosophy of Late Platonism.

Recenzje

... a lucid, orderly and comprehensive survey ... Erudite and judicious.