Plato’s Gorgias: Speech, Soul and Politics

David Machek, Vladimír Mikeš (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

242 Seiten

2024
Brill (Verlag)
978-90-04-69905-2 (ISBN)

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This book is an edited collection on one of Plato’s most dramatic as well as most complex dialogues, where a defence of the philosopher’s way of life is carried out against the background of interconnected rhetorical and political stances of the time.

In the Gorgias Plato offers a synthesis of what he thinks about the bitter conflict between philosophical and non-philosophical approaches to one’s responsibilities in private and public life. This book contributes to a deeper understanding of this historically and conceptually rich canvas by shedding light on its main topics: speech in its philosophical and non-philosophical forms, psychology in relation to virtuous life, and politics which charges the two former topics with high stakes that call for personal choices.

David Machek, Ph.D. (2015), University of Toronto, is a lecturer at the University of Berne and a research fellow at Charles University. He has recently published a monograph The Life Worth Living in Ancient Greek and Roman Philosophy (2023). Vladimír Mikeš, Ph.D. (2009), Charles University in Prague, is a researcher at the Czech Academy of Sciences (Institute of Philosophy). He has published and edited mainly on the Stoics and Plato, including Le paradoxe stoïcien: liberté de l’action déterminée (2016) and Plato’s Cratylus (2022).

Erscheinungsdatum	23.08.2024
Reihe/Serie	Brill's Plato Studies Series ; 17
Verlagsort	Leiden
Sprache	englisch; französisch
Maße	155 x 235 mm
Gewicht	547 g
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Vor- und Frühgeschichte
	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Altertum / Antike
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie Altertum / Antike
ISBN-10	90-04-69905-8 / 9004699058
ISBN-13	978-90-04-69905-2 / 9789004699052
Zustand	Neuware