Plato : Political Philosophy Hardback
by Malcolm (University of Cambridge) Schofield
Part of the Founders of Modern Political and Social Thought series
Hardback
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Plato is the best known and most widely studied of all the ancient Greek philosophers.
Malcolm Schofield, a leading scholar of ancient philosophy, offers a lucid and accessible guide to Plato's political thought, enormously influential and much discussed in the modern world as well as the ancient.
Schofield discusses Plato's ideas on education, democracy and its shortcomings, the role of knowledge in government, utopia and the idea of community, money and its grip on the psyche, and ideological uses of religion.
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Out of stock
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:394 pages
- Publisher:Oxford University Press
- Publication Date:31/08/2006
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- ISBN:9780199249619
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Out of stock
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:394 pages
- Publisher:Oxford University Press
- Publication Date:31/08/2006
- Category:
- ISBN:9780199249619