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Zusatztext Schofield is also thoroughly immersed in the enormous literature that has gathered around Plato's political writings, and he is unfailingly fair-minded in his treatment ... of other authors. There is no better way to enter this aspect of Plato's thought than to read this fine contribution to the series, Founders of Modern Political and Social Thought, edited by Mark Philp... It will endure as an indispensable guide not only to its principal subject - the Republic - but to all of Plato's political writings, and to their enduring interest today. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung Plato is the well known and widely studied of all the ancient Greek philosophers. This work offers a guide to Plato's political thought, influential in the modern world as well as the ancient. It discusses Plato's ideas on education, democracy and its shortcomings, the role of knowledge in government, utopia and the idea of community, and more. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction 1: The Republic: contexts and projects 2: Athens, democracy, and freedom 3: Problematizing democracy 4: The rule of knowledge 5: Utopia 6: Money and the soul 7: Ideology Conclusion
