
Plato on Democracy
Thanassis Samaras(Author)
Peter Lang Verlag
Will be published approx. on 22. April 2002
Book
Hardback
406 pages
978-0-8204-5681-2 (ISBN)
Description
Is Plato one of the most authoritarian authors ever to have appeared on the face of the earth? This question has received almost every conceivable answer in the past, but inquiry into it has not been helped by easy generalizations and unwarranted anachronisms. Plato on Democracy addresses this question by charting both the development of Plato's political thought and the complex relationships between metaphysics, history, and politics in his work. Never losing sight of the social context in which Plato's thinking developed, Plato on Democracy is a thorough and comprehensive analysis of Plato's political philosophy.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 21 cm
Width: 14.8 cm
Weight
700 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-8204-5681-2 (9780820456812)
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Person
Thanassis Samaras received his Ph.D. in philosophy from the University of Warwick. He is presently teaching philosophy at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. He has written extensively in both Greek and anglophone journals on issues pertaining to political philosophy.