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Philosophy and political power in antiquity /

Edited by Cinzia Arruzza and Dmitri Nikulin, Philosophy and Political Power in Antiquity is a collection of essays examining reflections by ancient philosophers on the implicit tension between political activity and the philosophical life from a variety of critical perspectives.

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Other Authors: Arruzza, Cinzia (Editor), Nikulin, Dmitri (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2016]
Subjects:
Political science > Philosophy.
Philosophy, Ancient.
Online Access: Full text (MFA users only)
ISBN:9789004324626
9004324623
ISSN:2211-2014 ;
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • The power of speech: the influence of the Sophists on Greek politics / Giovanni Giorgini
  • Philosophical dogs and tyrannical wolves in Plato's Republic / Cinzia Arruzza
  • What's the good of knowing the forms? / Chris Bobonich
  • Individual competence and collective deliberation in Aristotle's Politics / Christoph Horn
  • Diogenes the comic, or how to tell the truth in the face of a tyrant / Dmitri Nikulin
  • Dio of Prusa and the Roman Stoics on how to speak the truth to oneself and to power
  • Stoic utopia reconsidered: Pyrrhonism, ethics, and politics
  • Plato's tyrant in neoplatonic philosophy / Dominic J. O'Meara.

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