Malcolm Schofield

Saving the City

Philosopher-Kings and Other Classical Paradigms

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

'Saving the City' provides a detailed analysis of the attempts of ancient writers and thinkers, from Homer to Cicero, to construct and recommend political ideals of statesmanship and ruling, of the political community and of how it should be founded in justice.

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Saving the City examines ancient political and philosophical thought from Homer to Cicero. it explores the problem of exploiting the philosophical past without reading the present back into it.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 252
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. Juli 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 358g
• ISBN-13: 9780415642385
• ISBN-10: 0415642388
• Artikelnr.: 40744021

Autorenporträt

Malcolm Schofield

Inhaltsangabe

Preface. Introduction. 1. Euboulia in the Iliad
2. The Disappearing Philosopher King
3. Zeno of Citium's Anti-Utopianism
4. Plato on Economy
5. Political Friendship and the Ideology of Reciprocity
6. Hierarchy and equality in Aristotle's Social and Political Thought
7. Ideology and Philosophy in Aristotle's theory of Slavery
8. Sharing in the Constitution
9. Morality in the Law: the case of Diogenes of Babylon
10. Cicero's Definition of Res Publica
Bibliography
Indexes.