LEADER 02881oam 2200709Ma 450 001 9910786597003321 005 20230803024809.0 010 $a1-136-23616-3 010 $a0-203-10161-8 010 $a1-283-84215-7 010 $a1-136-23617-1 024 7 $a10.4324/9780203101612 035 $a(CKB)2670000000298789 035 $a(EBL)1074887 035 $a(OCoLC)821173495 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000811621 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11436589 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000811621 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10850351 035 $a(PQKB)10099621 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1074887 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1074887 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10630804 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL415465 035 $a(OCoLC)900237510 035 $a(FINmELB)ELB137495 035 $a(OCoLC)823738070 035 $a(OCoLC-P)823738070 035 $a(FlBoTFG)9780203101612 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000298789 100 $a20740206e20131959 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aPlato to-day /$fR.H.S. Crossman 210 $aNew York $cRoutledge$d2013 215 $a1 online resource (217 p.) 225 0 $aRoutledge library editions. Plato 300 $aIncludes index. 311 $a0-415-75154-3 311 $a0-415-62400-2 327 $aPLATO 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 330 $aPlato was born around 2,500 years ago. He lived in a small city-state in Greece and busied himself with the problems of his fellow Greeks, a people living in scattered cities around the Mediterranean and the Black Sea. In all he tried to do for the Greeks he failed. Why, then, should people in the modern world bother to read what he had to say? Does it make sense to go to a Greek thinker for advice on the problems of an age so different from his own? To anyone who has questioned the relevance of Plato to the modern world Richard Crossman's lively book provides a brilliant reply. The problem 410 0$aRoutledge library editions.$pPlato. 517 3 $aPlato today 606 $aState, The 606 $aDemocracy 606 $aFascism 615 0$aState, The. 615 0$aDemocracy. 615 0$aFascism. 676 $a184 676 $a321.07 700 $aCrossman$b R. H. S$g(Richard Howard Stafford),$f1907-1974.$0318727 801 0$bOCoLC-P 801 1$bOCoLC-P 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910786597003321 996 $aPlato to-day$93790985 997 $aUNINA