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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- A Note to the Reader -- Notes -- Thucydides: Introduction -- Thucydides the Holist -- Balancing Opposing Goods -- Holism, Pericles, and His Successors -- Immediacy in Thucydides -- Three Stages -- Justice and Power -- The Speeches and Thucydides' Thought -- Notes -- (1) Periclean Athens -- A Balance of Opposites -- The City as Center -- Pericles Undermined? -- The Success of the Periclean Plan -- Notes -- (2) Post-Periclean Athens -- The Mytilenian Debate -- Notes

(3) Alcibiadean Athens -- The Melian Dialogue -- The Sicilian Debate -- Athens as She Sets Sail for Sicily -- Melos and the Sicilian Expedition -- Notes -- Thucydides: Conclusion -- Cause and Effect: The Shattering of the Periclean Unity and the Sicilian Expedition -- Athens Moves toward the Immediate -- From City to Individual: Toward the Immediate -- The Power of Justice -- Custom, Nature, and Liberation -- Three Stages: Beginning, End, and Midpoint -- Athens' Development: An Old Objection -- Statesmanship in Thucydides and the Nature of the Periclean Achievement -- Notes

Plato: A Holistic Approach to the Gorgias and Republic I -- Notes -- The Gorgias: Introduction -- The Structure of the Gorgias -- Four Perspectives -- Notes -- Shame and the Ad Hominem Arguments -- Notes -- (1) Gorgias -- Notes -- (2) Polus -- Notes -- (3) Callicles -- Opening Remarks (481b6-488b1) -- Finding the Principle in Callicles (488b-494e) -- Notes -- How Callicles Is Good: Platonic Doctrine in the Gorgias -- Socrates' Natural Justice -- Pleasure, the Good and Ruling in the Gorgias -- Summary -- Notes -- Socrates in the Gorgias -- Notes -- Republic I -- Notes -- (1) Cephalus

Notes -- (2) Polemarchus -- Notes -- (3) Thrasymachus -- Thrasymachus Part One: Clarification -- Thrasymachus Part Two: Refutation -- Glimpses of the Good -- The Political Aspect -- How Thrasymachus Is Good -- The Limits of Thrasymachus -- Notes -- Republic I: Conclusion -- The Argument of Book I -- Proleptic Composition and the Cave in Republic I -- Socrates in Republic I -- Notes -- The Gorgias and the First Book of the Republic: Connections and Comparison -- Justice Based in Nature -- One Common Development -- Two Different Perspectives -- Why the Dialogue Form? -- Notes -- Conclusion

Justice and Power in Plato and Thucydides -- Plato and Thucydides Compared -- A New Subjective Spirit -- Liberation and Authority -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index -- About the Author

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.

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