Greek political theory : Plato and his predecessors /
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| Formato: | Libro |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Londres ; Methuen ; New York :
Barnes & Noble,
1960.
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| Edición: | 1st ed. |
| Colección: | University paperbacks ;
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Tabla de Contenidos:
- I: The Greek theory of the state
- II : The Greek state: The general characteristics of Greek state ; City states and tribal states ; The Greek state and slavery ; The Greek state and representative institutions ; The Greek state and education
- III: Political thought before the sophists: From Homer to Solon ; Pythagoreans and Ionians ; The transition from the physicists to the humanists
- IV: The political theory of the sophists: The rise of ethical and political speculation ; The general characteristics of the sophists ; Protagoras and the earlier sophists ; The antithesis of nature and law ; The sophist antiphon ; Plato's account of sophistic theories ; General iconoclasm ; Pamphleteers and Utopians ; Appendix: Two fragments from the treatise of the sophist antiphon 'On truth'
- V: Socrates and the minor Socratics: The life of Socrates ; The method and doctrine of Socrates ; The death of Socrates ; Xenophon ; Isocrates ;The cynics and cyrenaics
- VI: Plato and the platonic dialogue: The life of Plato ; The method of Plato's dialogues
- VII: The earlier dialogues of Plato: 1. The Apology and the Crito ; 2. The Charmides, Euthydemus, and Laches ; 3. The Meno, Protagoras, and Gorgias
- VIII: The republic and its theory of justice: The plan and motives of the Republic ; The Prima Facie theories of justice: 1. The theory of Cephalus: Traditionalism ; 2. The theory of Thrasymachus: Radicalism ; 3. The theory of Glaucon: Pragmatism ; The construction of the ideal state: 1. The economic factor in the state ; 2. The military factor in the state ; 3. The philosophic factor in the state ; The classes of the platonic state: Platonic justice
- IX: The republic and its theory of education: The place of education in Plato's state ; Greek methods of education ; The philosophic basis of Plato's theory of education ; The training of the guardians or auxiliaries: 1. The place of gymnastics in education ; 2. The place of music in education ; The higher studies of the perfect guardians ; The life of contemplation and the life of action ; The government of the ideal state
- X: The republic and its theory of communism: Community of property ; Community of wives ; The general theory of communism in the Republic
- XI: Plato and the states of Greece: The Republic as an ideal ; The judgement of actual states in the light of the ideal ; The first corruption-timocracy ; The second corruption-oligarchy ; The third corruption-democracy ; The last corruption-tyranny ; The final verdict on justice and injustice ; Plato and Panhellenism ; Note.-The Timaeus and the Critias
- XII: The Politicus: The definition of the statesman or absolute ruler ; The myth of the Politicus ; The final definition of the statesman or absolute ruler ; Absolutism justified by the argument of social harmony ; Absolutism modified by the idea of the rule of law ; The platonic classification of states
- XIII: The laws and its general theory of the state: The genesis and character of the Laws ; Self-control as the principles of the Laws ; Peace and war ; The nature of law ; The lesson of history
- XIV: The system of social relations in the Laws: Geography and population ; The treatment of property in the Laws ; The system of economics in the state of the Laws ; The treatment of marriage and the family in the Laws
- XV: The system of government in the Laws: The provisions for the beginning of the state ; The permanent institutions of the state ; The general character of the government in the Laws ; The change of tone in the twelfth book of the Laws
- XVI: The Laws and its theory of law: Plato's view of crime and punishment ; Religion and religious persecution
- XVII: The theory of education in the Laws: Prolegomena to the theory of education ; The state control of education ; Primary education in the Laws ; Secondary education in the Laws ; Note: The debt of Aristotle to the Laws
- Appendix: The later history of Plato's political theory: 1. The Middle Ages ; 2. The Renaissance ; Sir Thomas More ; 3. The modern world-Rousseau, Hegel, Comte.