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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...
| Cote: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Format: | Électronique eBook |
| Langue: | Inglés |
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London :
Duckworth,
2001.
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| Collection: | Classical inter/faces.
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| Accès en ligne: | Texto completo |
| Résumé: | 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. |
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| Description matérielle: | 1 online resource (x, 165 pages) |
| Bibliographie: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 155-158) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781472502292 1472502299 9781849669313 1849669317 9781472502308 1472502302 |