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Plato's Beautiful City and the Essence of Politics [electronic resource].

By: Hammond, Scott JohnMaterial type: TextTextPublication details: Lanham Lexington Books, 2020Description: 1 online resource (249 p.)ISBN: 1793602514; 9781793602510Subject(s): Plato -- Political and social views | Plato | State, The | Political science -- Philosophy | Political and social views | Political science -- Philosophy | State, TheGenre/Form: EBSCO eBooks | Electronic books. DDC classification: 321.07 LOC classification: JC71.P6 | H36 2020ebOnline resources: EBSCOhost
Contents:
Cover -- Half-Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 Drawing Further Meaning from Cephalus and Polemarchus -- 2 Making Thrasymachus Blush -- 3 Sons of Ariston -- 4 The True City -- 5 The True City Embodied in the Guardians -- 6 Rough Seas -- 7 Building a Theory from an Account -- 8 The Second-Best City -- 9 The Form of the Polis in the Second-Best City: The Visible -- 10 The Form of the Polis in the Second-Best City: The Invisible -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the Author
Summary: In Plato's political theory we discover the essence of politics, which provides the requisite lessons to understand political as it is and should be. As there is a Form of the Good, there is a Form of the Polis, discerned in Plato's philosophy and as real for us as it was for him.
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Cover -- Half-Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 Drawing Further Meaning from Cephalus and Polemarchus -- 2 Making Thrasymachus Blush -- 3 Sons of Ariston -- 4 The True City -- 5 The True City Embodied in the Guardians -- 6 Rough Seas -- 7 Building a Theory from an Account -- 8 The Second-Best City -- 9 The Form of the Polis in the Second-Best City: The Visible -- 10 The Form of the Polis in the Second-Best City: The Invisible -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the Author

In Plato's political theory we discover the essence of politics, which provides the requisite lessons to understand political as it is and should be. As there is a Form of the Good, there is a Form of the Polis, discerned in Plato's philosophy and as real for us as it was for him.

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