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Record Nr.

UNINA9910787923203321

Autore

Ludlam Ivor

Titolo

Plato's republic as a philosophical drama on doing well / / Ivor Ludlam

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lanham, Maryland : , : Lexington Press, , 2015

©2015

ISBN

0-7391-9020-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (297 p.)

Classificazione

15.51

18.43

Disciplina

321.07

Soggetti

Political science - Greece - History

Philosophy

Greece Politics and government To 146 B.C

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Acknowledgments; Chapter One: Introduction; Chapter Two: The Thrasymachus Problem; Chapter Three: A Philosophical Drama; Chapter Four: The Characters; Chapter Five: Socrates and the Logos; Chapter Six: The Digression; Chapter Seven: A Model Dialogue; Chapter Eight: Doing Well; Chapter Nine: A Dialogue on Apparently Doing Well; Works Cited; Index; About the Author

Sommario/riassunto

<span><span style=""font-style:italic;"">Plato's </span><span>Republic</span><span style=""font-style:italic;""> as a Philosophical Drama on Doing Well</span><span> reimagines the central theme of Plato's foundational work</span><span style=""font-style:italic;""> </span><span>through an interpretation of its characters as paradigms of the apparent good. Focusing attention on the dialogue itself, Ivor Ludlam provides an innovative, holistic, and dramatic new perspective on the classic text.</span></span><br /><span><span> </span></span><br /><span><span> </span></span>