TY  - BOOK
AU  - Schofield,Malcolm
TI  - Plato: political philosophy 
T2  - Founders of modern political and social thought
SN  - 9780199249466
AV  - JC71.S367.S364 2006 
PY  - 2006///
CY  - Oxford, New York
PB  - Oxford University Press
N1  - 1 (pages 334-359) and indexes; Introduction --; The Republic : contexts and projects --; The centrepiece --; Some dubious Platonic autobiography; Socrates : engagement and detachment --; The projects of The Republic --; Education, Sparta and the politeia tradition --; Athens, democracy and freedom --; Democratic entanglements --; Democracy and rhetoric --; The laws on democracy and freedom --; Problematizing democracy --; From polarity to complexity --; Democracy, equality and freedom --; Democracy and pluralism --; Democracy and anarchy --; Democracy and knowledge --; The rule of knowledge --; Philosophy or political expertise? --; Mill and Jowett on Plato --; Architectonic knowledge --; Philosopher rulers --; Architectonic knowledge revisited --; The limitations of management --; Utopia --; Against utopia --; A question of seriousness --; A future for utopianism --; Plato's utopian realism --; The idea of community; Epilogue : the question of fantasy --; Money and the soul --; The ethics and politics of money --; The analogy of city and soul --; The psychology of money --; Greed, power and injustice --; Taming the beast within --; Ideology --; Ideology and religion --; The noble lie --; Law and religion; 2
N2  - "In this general account of Plato's political thought, a leading scholar of ancient Greek philosophy explores its key themes: education, democracy and its shortcomings, the role of knowledge in government, utopia and the idea of community, money and its grip on the psyche, ideological uses of religion. Between them these define what Plato considered to be the fundamental challenges for politics. All remain live issues. On all of them Plato took radical and uncomfortable positions." "Assuming a broad range of readers - with backgrounds in varied fields (politics, philosophy, classics, history) - Malcolm Schofield articulates and analyses Plato's main lines of thought, illustrating them with a liberal use of translated excerpts, and highlighting affinities with modern theorists from Machiavelli and Mill to Rawls and Habermas. Schofield's distinctive approach to Plato's problems constitutes a lucid and accessible guide for those needing an introduction, and at the same time will provide those who know Plato well with much food for thought."--BOOK JACKET
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