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Record Nr.

UNINA9910786597003321

Autore

Crossman R. H. S (Richard Howard Stafford), <1907-1974.>

Titolo

Plato to-day / / R.H.S. Crossman

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Routledge, 2013

ISBN

1-136-23616-3

0-203-10161-8

1-283-84215-7

1-136-23617-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (217 p.)

Collana

Routledge library editions. Plato

Disciplina

184

321.07

Soggetti

State, The

Democracy

Fascism

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di contenuto

PLATO TO-DAY; Copyright; PLATO TO-DAY; Copyright; Contents; Introduction; 1. Plato and the Modern World; 2. The Historical Background; 3. Socrates; 4. Plato; 5. Plato Looks at British Democracy; 6. Plato Looks at British Education; 7. Plato Looks at the Family; 8. Plato Looks at Communism; 9. Plato Looks at Fascism; 10. Why Plato Failed; 11. The Modern Plato Once More; 12. Epilogue; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Plato was born around 2,500 years ago. He lived in a small city-state in Greece and busied himself with the problems of his fellow Greeks, a people living in scattered cities around the Mediterranean and the Black Sea. In all he tried to do for the Greeks he failed. Why, then, should people in the modern world bother to read what he had to say? Does it make sense to go to a Greek thinker for advice on the problems of an age so different from his own? To anyone who has questioned the relevance of Plato to the modern world Richard Crossman's lively book provides a brilliant reply. The problem