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Plato's progeny : how Socrates and Plato still captivate the modern mind /

Socrates wrote nothing; Plato's accounts of Socrates helped to establish western politics, ethics, and metaphysics. Both have played crucial and dramatically changing roles in western culture. In the last two centuries, the triumph of democracy has led many to side with the Athenians against a...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Lane, M. S. (Melissa S.)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London : Duckworth, 2001.
Colección:Classical inter/faces.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:Socrates wrote nothing; Plato's accounts of Socrates helped to establish western politics, ethics, and metaphysics. Both have played crucial and dramatically changing roles in western culture. In the last two centuries, the triumph of democracy has led many to side with the Athenians against a Socrates whom they were right to kill. Meanwhile the Cold War gave us polar images of Plato as both a dangerous totalitarian and an escapist intellectual. And visions of Plato have proliferated at the heart of postmodern critiques of the very idea of metaphysics and politics. Plato's Progeny begins wit.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (x, 165 pages)
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references (pages 155-158) and index.
ISBN:9781472502292
1472502299
9781849669313
1849669317
9781472502308
1472502302