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Profound ignorance : Plato's Charmides and the saving of wisdom /
No topic could be more relevant in these times than tyranny, "the greatest sickness of the soul." The Charmides of Plato gives us an opportunity to look deeply into the soul or cognitive structure of one of Athens's most notorious tyrants, Critias, the leader of the Thirty Tyrants; an...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Lanham :
Lexington Books,
[2016]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Preface; Chapter 1: Remembering the Tyrant in an Age of Totalitarianism: A General Introduction; Chapter 2: The City and Its Promise; Chapter 3: Doctor Socrates; Chapter 4: The Look Beneath, Part I: The Dilemma of Our Sociability; Chapter 5: The Look Beneath, Part II: The Elusiveness of Selfhood; Chapter 6: The Wisdom of Critias; Chapter 7: The Lesson of Ignorance, I; Chapter 8: The Lesson of Ignorance, II; Chapter 9: Horn or Ivory: Two Faces of Sophrosyne; Chapter 10: "A Sight Surely Worth Seeing"; Appendix: Synopsis of Profound Ignorance; Bibliography; Index; About the Author