Plato : political philosophy /

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Author / Creator:Schofield, Malcolm.
Imprint:Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2006.
Description:1 online resource (x, 384 pages)
Language:English
Series:Founders of modern political and social thought
Founders of modern political and social thought.
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11158813
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ISBN:9780191530432
0191530433
0199249466
019924961X
9780199249466
9780199249619
Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages 334-359) and indexes.
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Summary:Plato is the best known and most widely studied of all the ancient Greek philosophers. Malcolm Schofield, a leading scholar of ancient philosophy, offers a lucid and accessible guide to Plato's political thought, enormously influential and much discussed in the modern world as well as the ancient. Schofield discusses Plato's ideas on education, democracy and its shortcomings, the role of knowledge in government, utopia and the idea of community, money and its grip on the psyche, . and ideological uses of religion. - ;The Founders of Modern Political and Social Thought series presents critical e.
Other form:Print version: Schofield, Malcolm. Plato. Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2006 0199249466 019924961X