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Author Schofield, Malcolm

Title Saving the City : Philosopher-Kings and Other Classical Paradigms
Published London : Routledge, 1998

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Description 1 online resource (228 pages)
Contents BOOK COVER; HALF-TITLE; TITLE; COPYRIGHT; DEDICATION; CONTENTS; PREFACE; PUBLICATION DETAILS; INTRODUCTION; 1. EUBOULIA IN THE ILIAD; 2. THE DISAPPEARING PHILOSOPHER-KING; 3. ZENO OF CITIUM'S ANTI-UTOPIANISM; 4. PLATO ON THE ECONOMY; 5. POLITICAL FRIENDSHIP AND THE IDEOLOGY OF RECIPROCITY; 6. EQUALITY AND HIERARCHY IN ARISTOTLE'S POLITICAL THOUGHT; 7. IDEOLOGY AND PHILOSOPHY IN ARISTOTLE'S THEORY OF SLAVERY; 8. SHARING IN THE CONSTITUTION; 9. MORALITY AND THE LAW The case of Diogenes of Babylon; 10. CICERO'S DEFINITION OF RES PUBLICA; NOTES; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX
Summary Saving the City examines ancient political and philosophical thought from Homer to Cicero. it explores the problem of exploiting the philosophical past without reading the present back into it
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Subject Political science -- Greece
Political science -- Rome
Law, Greek.
Roman law.
Civilization, Ancient.
Civilization, Classical.
Civilization, Classical
Civilization, Ancient
Law, Greek
Political science
Roman law
Greece
Rome (Empire)
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780203201817
0203201817