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Hammond, Scott John. Plato's Beautiful City and the Essence of Politics [[electronic resource].]. — Lanham: Lexington Books, 2020. — 1 online resource (249 p.). — Description based upon print version of record. — <URL:http://elib.fa.ru/ebsco/2499422.pdf>.Record create date: 6/27/2020 Subject: State, The.; Political science — Philosophy.; Political and social views.; Political science — Philosophy.; State, The. Collections: EBSCO Allowed Actions: –
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In Plato's political theory we discover the essence of politics, which provides the requisite lessons to understand political as it is and should be. As there is a Form of the Good, there is a Form of the Polis, discerned in Plato's philosophy and as real for us as it was for him.
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Table of Contents
- Cover
- Plato’s Beautiful City andthe Essence of Politics
- Plato’s Beautiful City andthe Essence of Politics
- Copyright
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Chapter 1
- Drawing Further Meaning from Cephalus and Polemarchus
- Reflections on Cephalus
- Polemarchus Reconceives His Inheritance
- Notes
- Chapter 2
- Making Thrasymachus Blush
- Two Questions and Two Models
- Socrates Catches a First Glimpse of the Form of the Polis
- Notes
- Chapter 3
- Sons of Ariston
- Glaucon’s Spirited Companionship.
- The Inverted Way
- Immoderate Adeimantus and the Flirtation with Impiety
- Concluding Thoughts and Selected Reiterations
- Notes
- Chapter 4
- The True City
- The True and Just City Comes into View
- Ruling and Being Ruled, Serving and Being Served
- Summary: Democracy and Virtue in the True City
- Notes
- Chapter 5
- The True City Embodied in the Guardians
- Preliminaries: The Qualities, Education, and Character of the Guardians
- The First Essential Property: Shared Resources
- Legislation and Education, Law and Virtue
- Notes
- Chapter 6
- Rough Seas
- First and Second Waves: Second and Third Lessons
- The Third Wave and the Fourth Lesson: Reason Should Guide Power
- Notes
- Chapter 7
- Building a Theory from an Account
- Temporality and the Origins of the Polis
- Dissolution from Growth
- Politics, Friendship, and the Rule of Proportion
- Notes
- Chapter 8
- The Second-Best City
- Cosmology and Community
- Half a Democracy
- Notes
- Chapter 9
- The Form of the Polis in the Second-Best City
- Political Authority and Personal Wealth
- Public Good and Private Interest
- Notes
- Chapter 10
- The Form of the Polis in the Second-Best City
- Reason Guides Power: Wise Leaders and the Rule of Law
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- About the Author
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