Liberation and Authority - Plato''s Gorgias, the First Book of the Republic, and Thucydides

Liberation and Authority provides original, comparative readings of Plato's Gorgias, the first book of the Republic, and Thucydides' History, arguing that they share similarities not only in the oft-noted "natural justice" of Callicles, Thrasymachus, and the Melian Dialogue, but also in a development that runs through the whole of each.

List of contents

Introduction
Thucydides: Introduction
(1) Periclean Athens
(2) Post-Periclean Athens
(3) Alcibiadean Athens
Thucydides: Conclusion
Plato - A Holistic Approach to the Gorgias and Republic I
The Gorgias: Introduction
Shame and the Ad Hominem Arguments
(1) Gorgias
(2) Polus
(3) Callicles
How Callicles is Good: Platonic Doctrine in the Gorgias
Socrates in the Gorgias
Republic I
(1) Cephalus
(2) Polemarchus
(3) Thrasymachus
Republic I: Conclusion
The Gorgias and the First Book of the Republic: Connections and Comparison
Conclusion
Works Cited

About the author

By Nicholas Thorne

Summary

Liberation and Authority provides original, comparative readings of Plato's Gorgias, the first book of the Republic, and Thucydides' History, arguing that they share similarities not only in the oft-noted "natural justice" of Callicles, Thrasymachus, and the Melian Dialogue, but also in a development that runs through the whole of each.

Product details

• Authors: Nicholas Thorne, Thorne Nicholas
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.05.2021
• EAN: 9781793639042
• ISBN: 978-1-79363-904-2
• No. of pages: 292
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: antiquity to present day; European History, Ancient Greece, PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / Ancient & Classical, HISTORY / Ancient / Greece, Ancient History, ancient philosophy, Ancient history: to c 500 CE, Western philosophy: Ancient, to c 500