Saving the city : philosopher-kings and other classical paradigms

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Label

Saving the city : philosopher-kings and other classical paradigms

Title remainder

philosopher-kings and other classical paradigms

Statement of responsibility

Malcolm Schofield

Creator

• Schofield, Malcolm

Subject

• Law, Greek
• Political science -- Greece
• Civilization, Ancient
• Roman law
• Political science -- Rome

Language

eng

Summary

How are political communities cemented together? Are rights inherent in the idea of citizenship? Saving the City examines ancient political thought from Homer to Cicero. It explores the problem of exploiting the philosophical past without reading the present back into it, discussing how far we can use categories such as the heroic code, utopianism, ideology, the economy or political rights to examine the evidence. This erudite and stimulating book offers fresh resolutions of disputed issues in well known texts such as Homer's Iliad and the Politics of Aristotle, and new explorations of some less familiar material, notably Plato's Laws, Aristotle's Eudemiau Ethics, Stoic political theory and Cicero's Republic

Cataloging source

DLC

LC call number

JC51

LC item number

.S36 1999

Nature of contents

bibliography

Series statement

Issues in ancient philosophy