Plato's Cretan City (eBook)

A Historical Interpretation of the Laws

Glenn R. Morrow (Autor)

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2022
648 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-24285-9 (ISBN)

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Plato's Cretan City is a thorough investigation into the roots of Plato's Laws and a compelling explication of his ideas on legislation and social institutions. A dialogue among three travelers, the Laws proposes a detailed plan for administering a new colony on the island of Crete. In examining this dialogue, Glenn Morrow describes the contemporary Greek institutions in Athens, Crete, and Sparta on which Plato based his model city, and explores the philosopher's proposed regulations concerning property, the family, government, and the administration of justice, education, and religion. He approaches the Laws as both a living document of reform and a philosophical inquiry into humankind's highest earthly duty.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 8.3.2022
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Theater / Ballett
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie Altertum / Antike
• Schlagworte: Aeschylus • agoge • Anacharsis • Antithesis • Anytus • Apollo • Apology (Plato) • aristocracy • Aristotle • atimia • attempt • Callicles • Capital punishment • Chaerephon • Charmides (dialogue) • CIMON • Cleisthenes of Sicyon • Critias • Critias (dialogue) • Criticism • Delict • Demetrius of Phalerum • Demiurge • Democracy • Democritus • despotism • Diogenes of Sinope • Dionysus • Doctrine • dokimasia • dorians • Draconian constitution • Ephor • Ephorus • Epinomis • Essay • Euripides • excursus • Exegesis • Explanation • Gerousia • Helots • Homer • impiety • Impossibility • Institution • Isocrates • Legislation • Legislator • Maximus of Tyre • metic • mixed government • Multitude • nicias • nous • of education • Oligarchy • Ostracism • Overreaction • Philosopher • Philosophy • phratry • Plato • Political Philosophy • Politique • Preamble • Precedent • Prosecutor • Protagoras • Pythagoreanism • Recommendation (European Union) • Religion • Religious Law • Republic (Plato) • Roman government • Rule of Law • Ruler • Sedition • Sicilian Expedition • Slavery • Sophist • Sortition • Sovereignty • Superiority (short story) • sycophant • The Open Society and Its Enemies • The Other Hand • The Persians • The Philosopher • theramenes • Third Sacred War • Thought • Thucydides • trial of socrates • Trojan War • Tyrant • Tyrtaeus • Voting • warfare • Zaleucus
• ISBN-10: 0-691-24285-2 / 0691242852
• ISBN-13: 978-0-691-24285-9 / 9780691242859