This text explores the history of the individual within the context of Plato's social thought. The author examines Plato's treatment of the principal crises in a life: birth, educational selection, sex, the individual's contract with society, old age, death and life after death, and provides an analysis of Plato's theory of genetics.
This text explores the history of the individual within the context of Plato's social thought. The author examines Plato's treatment of the principal ...
This text explores the history of the individual within the context of Plato's social thought. The author examines Plato's treatment of the principal crises in a life: birth, educational selection, sex, the individual's contract with society, old age, death and life after death, and provides an analysis of Plato's theory of genetics.
This text explores the history of the individual within the context of Plato's social thought. The author examines Plato's treatment of the principal ...
The Sophists, the Socratics and the Cynics had one important characteristic in common: they mainly used spoken natural language as their instrument of investigation, and they were more concerned to discover human nature in its various practical manifestations than the facts of the physical world. Rankin discusses what social needs prompted the development of their theories and provided a market for their teaching.
The Sophists, the Socratics and the Cynics had one important characteristic in common: they mainly used spoken natural language as their instrument of...