Why Plato Wrote

Danielle S. Allen (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

244 Seiten

2012
Wiley-Blackwell (Verlag)
978-1-118-45439-8 (ISBN)

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In this thought-provoking text Danielle Allen eloquently argues that Plato wrote to change Athenian culture and thereby transform Athenian politics. She makes the case that Plato was not only the world's first systematic political philosopher, but also the western world's first think-tank activist and message man.

Why Plato Wrote argues that Plato was not only the world’s first systematic political philosopher, but also the western world’s first think-tank activist and message man.

Shows that Plato wrote to change Athenian society and thereby transform Athenian politics
Offers accessible discussions of Plato’s philosophy of language and political theory
Selected by Choice as an Outstanding Academic Title for 2011

Danielle S. Allen is UPS Foundation Professor at the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton. She is the author of The World of Prometheus: The Politics of Punishing in Democratic Athens (2000) and Talking to Strangers: Anxieties of Citizenship Since Brown vs. the Board of Education (2004).

Acknowledgments ix

Abbreviations xi

Prologue: Why Think about Plato? 1

Part I: Why Plato Wrote 9

Chapter 1: Who Was Plato? 11

Chapter 2: The Importance of Symbols in Human Life 24

Chapter 3: The Philosopher as Model-Maker 38

Chapter 4: The Philosopher as Shadow-Maker 55

Chapter 5: What Plato Wrote 70

Chapter 6: How Plato Lived 79

Part II: What Plato Did 87

Chapter 7: The Case for Influence 89

Chapter 8: Culture War Emergent 108

Chapter 9: Culture War Concluded 122

Epilogue: And to My Colleagues 143

Appendix 1: The Relationship between Paradigms and Forms 148

Appendix 2: A Second Tri-partite Division of the Soul? 154

Appendix 3: Miso- Compounds in Greek Literature 158

Notes 161

References 206

Further Reading 215

Index 219

Erscheint lt. Verlag	13.12.2012
Reihe/Serie	Blackwell-Bristol Lectures on Greece, Rome and the Classical Tradition
Verlagsort	Hoboken
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 231 mm
Gewicht	318 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie Altertum / Antike
ISBN-10	1-118-45439-1 / 1118454391
ISBN-13	978-1-118-45439-8 / 9781118454398
Zustand	Neuware