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

Informationen zum Autor By Nicholas Thorne Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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

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• Authors: Nicholas Thorne, Thorne Nicholas
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.03.2023
• EAN: 9781793639066
• ISBN: 978-1-79363-906-6
• No. of pages: 296
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; 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