Plato's Political Philosophy - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Plato's Political Philosophy write by Mark Blitz. This book was released on 2010-11-01. Plato's Political Philosophy available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This comprehensive, yet compact, introduction examines Plato's understanding of law, justice, virtue, and the connection between politics and philosophy. Focusing on three of Plato's dialogues—The Laws, The Republic, and The Statesman—Mark Blitz lays out the philosopher's principal interests in government and the strength and limit of the law, the connection between law and piety, the importance of founding, and the status and limits of political knowledge. He examines all of Plato's discussions of politics and virtues, comments on specific dialogues, and discusses the philosopher's explorations of beauty, pleasure, good, and the relations between politics and reason. Throughout, Blitz reinforces Plato's emphasis on clear and rigorous reasoning in ethics and political life and explains in straightforward language the valuable lessons one can draw from examining Plato's writings. The only introduction to Plato that both gathers his separate discussions of politically relevant topics and pays close attention to the context and structure of his dialogues, this volume directly contrasts the modern view of politics with that of the ancient master. It is an excellent companion to Plato's Dialogues.
The Development of Plato's Political Theory
The Development of Plato's Political Theory - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Development of Plato's Political Theory write by George Klosko. This book was released on 2006-12-07. The Development of Plato's Political Theory available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Like the first edition, this edition of The Development of Plato's Political Theory provides a clear, scholarly account of Plato's political theory in the context of the social and political events of his time. This second edition has been thoroughly revised to take into account scholarly developments during the last twenty years.
Plato and the Mythic Tradition in Political Thought
Plato and the Mythic Tradition in Political Thought - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Plato and the Mythic Tradition in Political Thought write by Tae-Yeoun Keum. This book was released on 2020-12-08. Plato and the Mythic Tradition in Political Thought available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. An ambitious reinterpretation and defense of Plato’s basic enterprise and influence, arguing that the power of his myths was central to the founding of philosophical rationalism. Plato’s use of myths—the Myth of Metals, the Myth of Er—sits uneasily with his canonical reputation as the inventor of rational philosophy. Since the Enlightenment, interpreters like Hegel have sought to resolve this tension by treating Plato’s myths as mere regrettable embellishments, irrelevant to his main enterprise. Others, such as Karl Popper, have railed against the deceptive power of myth, concluding that a tradition built on Platonic foundations can be neither rational nor desirable. Tae-Yeoun Keum challenges the premise underlying both of these positions. She argues that myth is neither irrelevant nor inimical to the ideal of rational progress. She tracks the influence of Plato’s dialogues through the early modern period and on to the twentieth century, showing how pivotal figures in the history of political thought—More, Bacon, Leibniz, the German Idealists, Cassirer, and others—have been inspired by Plato’s mythmaking. She finds that Plato’s followers perennially raised the possibility that there is a vital role for myth in rational political thinking.
Social and Political Philosophy
Social and Political Philosophy - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Social and Political Philosophy write by John Somerville. This book was released on 2012-09-12. Social and Political Philosophy available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. An anthology of basic statements by the most influential social and political philosophers of Western civilization. Includes Plato, Aristotle, Machiavelli, Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau, Jefferson, Thoreau, Mill, Marx and Engels, Lenin, Mussolini, Hitler, Dewey, and Gandhi.
Plato, Aristotle, and the Purpose of Politics
Plato, Aristotle, and the Purpose of Politics - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Plato, Aristotle, and the Purpose of Politics write by Kevin M. Cherry. This book was released on 2012-04-30. Plato, Aristotle, and the Purpose of Politics available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In this book, Kevin M. Cherry compares the views of Plato and Aristotle about the practice, study and, above all, the purpose of politics. The first scholar to place Aristotle's Politics in sustained dialogue with Plato's Statesman, Cherry argues that Aristotle rejects the view of politics advanced by Plato's Eleatic Stranger, contrasting them on topics such as the proper categorization of regimes, the usefulness and limitations of the rule of law, and the proper understanding of phronēsis. The various differences between their respective political philosophies, however, reflect a more fundamental difference in how they view the relationship of human beings to the natural world around them. Reading the Politics in light of the Statesman sheds new light on Aristotle's political theory and provides a better understanding of Aristotle's criticism of Socrates. Most importantly, it highlights an enduring and important question: should politics have as its primary purpose the preservation of life, or should it pursue the higher good of living well?
