Plato's Vision : The Classical Origins of Social and Political Thought

Name: Plato's Vision : The Classical Origins of Social and Political Thought
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ISBN: 9780136816287

ISBN-10: 0136816282

ISBN-13: 9780136816287

Edition: 1993

Authors: Irving M. Zeitlin

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List price: $25.60
Copyright year: 1993
Publisher: Prentice Hall PTR
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 192
Size: 6.50" wide x 9.50" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.836
Language: English

Preface
Introduction: History and Social Structure	p. 1
The Emergence of Democracy	p. 4
Tyranny	p. 6
Athenian Democracy	p. 10
Solon (c. 594/3)	p. 13
Cleisthenes (c. 508/7)	p. 15
The Persian-Greek Wars	p. 16
Slavery in the Democracy	p. 19
The Athenian Empire	p. 20
From Religion to Philosophy	p. 25
Greek Polytheism	p. 25
Plato's Predecessors	p. [s.n.]
The Sophists	p. [s.n.]
Protagoras	p. 38
Gorgias	p. 39
Socrates	p. 43
The "Spartan" Habits of Socrates' Associates	p. 50
Socrates in Aristophanes' The Clouds	p. 52
The Theory of "Forms" or "Ideas"	p. 54
The Forms as Manifestations of Moira	p. 57
The Trial and Execution of Socrates	p. 69
Plato	p. 65
The Apology and the Crito	p. 70
Other Early Dialogues	p. 74
The Meno, Protagoras, and Gorgias	p. 77
The Protagoras	p. 79
The Gorgias	p. 83
The Republic	p. 91
The Debate with Thrasymachus	p. 96
Plato's Ideal Society	p. 99
The Classes of the Ideal Society	p. 103
Sparta or Athens	p. 107
Plato's Theory of the Mind	p. 109
Education in The Republic	p. 111
Education of the Philosopher-Rulers	p. 112
Plato's Theory of Communism	p. 116
Communism of Wives	p. 121
The Republic: Utopia or Program for Actual States?	p. 125
Social Systems	p. 127
Rebuttal of Thrasymachus' Argument	p. 132
Plato's National Ideal	p. 133
The Statesman: A Transitional Phase in Plato's Thinking	p. 135
Plato's Weaver Analogy	p. 142
The Laws: Plato's Last Thoughts	p. 147
The Central Principle of the Laws	p. 151
War and Peace	p. 152
Property and Wealth	p. 155
Marriage and the Family	p. 159
Government in the Laws	p. 161
The State Apparatus in the Laws	p. 166
The Return to the Republic	p. 170
References	p. 173
Acknowledgments	p. 175
Index	p. 177
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