Philosophy and political power in antiquity /

Philosophy and political power in antiquity /

Philosophy and Political Power in Antiquity is a collection of essays examining ancient philosophers' reflections on the connection between political power and philosophy. The ancient Greeks both invented political philosophy and were the first to conceptualize the implicit tension between poli...

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Other Authors: Arruzza, Cinzia.

Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2016.

Series: Studies in Moral Philosophy 10.
Religious Studies, Theology and Philosophy E-Books Online, Collection 2016, ISBN: 9789004303942.

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Political science > Philosophy.
Philosophy, Ancient.

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Call Number: B65

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Table of Contents:
  • Preliminary Material
  • Introduction /
  • Cinzia Arruzza and Dmitri Nikulin
  • 1 The Power of Speech: The Influence of the Sophists on Greek Politics /
  • Giovanni Giorgini
  • 2 Philosophical Dogs and Tyrannical Wolves in Plato's Republic /
  • Cinzia Arruzza
  • 3 What's the Good of Knowing the Forms? /
  • Chris Bobonich
  • 4 Individual Competence and Collective Deliberation in Aristotle's Politics /
  • Christoph Horn
  • 5 Diogenes the Comic, or How to Tell the Truth in the Face of a Tyrant /
  • Dmitri Nikulin
  • 6 Dio of Prusa and the Roman Stoics on How to Speak the Truth to Oneself and to Power /
  • Gretchen Reydams-Schils
  • 7 Stoic Utopia Reconsidered: Pyrrhonism, Ethics, and Politics /
  • Emidio Spinelli
  • 8 Plato's Tyrant in Neoplatonic Philosophy /
  • Dominic J. O'Meara
  • General Index
  • Ancient Sources.