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In den hier vereinigten Beitragen kommen Uberlegungen der Alten zur Sprache, die seinerzeit Epoche gemacht und das Denken auf den Weg rationalen Argumentierens gebracht haben. Sie fuhren von Hesiod, dessen mythologisch-genealogische Spekulation mehr "Philosophie" enthalt, als von einem fruhen Epiker zu erwarten ist, uber Xenophanes, Parmenides und Protagoras bis hin zu Platon. Die neun Beitrage, die ihm gewidmet sind, erganzen die vor einigen Jahren erschienenen 'Wege zu Platon'.

Politische Partizipation ist als Leitvorstellung staatlicher Organisation heute weltweit unbestritten. Wahrend aber Konsens daruber herrscht, dass der einzelne Burger an den Entscheidungen, die das Gemeinwesen betreffen, beteiligt sein sollte, sind die Meinungen daruber, wie diese Vorstellung in die Realitat umzusetzen sei, geteilt - und entsprechend wird politische Partizipation in ganz unterschiedlichen Formen und in ganz unterschiedlichem Ausma verwirklicht. Zwischen der Idee, die von Beginn an auf grotmogliche Mitsprache des einzelnen Burgers angelegt ist, und ihrer Realisierung...

Der literarische Dialog gehorte in der Antike zu den zentralen Gattungen der Philosophie wie des theoretischen Diskurses im Allgemeinen. Den Grunden fur die durchgangige Beliebtheit der Gattung in den unterschiedlichen Feldern der Wissensvermittlung nachzugehen, ist Ziel der 17 Beitrage des Sammelbands. Sie sind aus einer internationalen altertumswissenschaftlichen Tagung uber den antiken Dialog, die 2011 in Bamberg stattgefunden hat, hervorgegangen.

Der gemeinsame Fragehorizont der Beitrage gilt dem Verhaltnis von Form, Inhalt und Funktion, mithin dem Dialog als literarischer...

One of the most celebrated of Plato's ideas was that if human society was ever to function successfully then philosophers would need to become kings, or kings philosophers. In a perfect state, therefore, philosophic wisdom should be wedded to political power.

In antiquity, who were or aspired to be philosopher-kings? What was their understanding of wisdom and the limits of knowledge? What influence have they had on periods beyond antiquity? This volume focuses on Plato and his contemporaries; Alexander the Great and his Hellenistic successors; Marcus Aurelius and the 'good emperors';...

This book is the first sustained modern investigation of Plato s theology. A central thesis of the book is that Plato "had "a theologynot just a mythology for the ideal city, not just the theory of forms or the theory of cosmic souls, but also, irreducible to any of these, an account of God as "Nous "(Reason), the source of rational order both to souls and the world of bodies. The understanding of God as Reason, and of the world as governed directly or indirectly by Reason, is worked out in the dialogues of Plato s last period, the "Statesman, Philebus, Timaeus, "and "Laws. "These...

In this book, Sara Monoson challenges the longstanding and widely held view that Plato is a virulent opponent of all things democratic. She does not, however, offer in its place the equally mistaken idea that he is somehow a partisan of democracy. Instead, she argues that we should attend more closely to Plato's suggestion that democracy is horrifying and exciting, and she seeks to explain why he found it morally and politically intriguing.

Monoson focuses on Plato's engagement with democracy as he knew it: a cluster of cultural practices that reach into private and...

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