Plato and the City: A New Introduction to Plato's Political Thought

Jean-Francois Pradeau (Faculte de Philosophie, Universite Jean Moulin (France))

Plato and the City: A New Introduction to Plato's Political Thought
Format
Hardback
Publisher
Liverpool University Press
Country
United Kingdom
Published
2 October 2002
Pages
176
ISBN
9780859896535

Plato and the City: A New Introduction to Plato’s Political Thought

Jean-Francois Pradeau (Faculte de Philosophie, Universite Jean Moulin (France))

This general introduction to Plato’s political thought covers the main periods of Platonic thought, examining those dialogues that best show how Plato makes the city’s unity the aim of politics and then makes the quest for that unity the aim of philosophy. From the psychological model (the city is like a great soul) to the physiological definition (the city is a living being), the reader can traverse the whole of Plato’s oeuvre, and understand it as a political philosophy. The book is designed to be an undergraduate textbook but should be of interest to scholars. It is the first English translation of Platon et la cite , published in French by Presses Universitaires de France in 1997 as part of the series Philosophies , and offers English-speaking readers access to a more unifying continental European reading of Plato than is common in UK or North American scholarship.

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