Politeia in Greek and Roman PhilosophyVerity Harte This is the first exploration of how ideas of politeia (constitution) structure both political and extra-political relations throughout the entirety of Greek and Roman philosophy, ranging from Presocratic to classical, Hellenistic, and Neoplatonic thought. A highly distinguished international team of scholars investigate topics such as the Athenian, Spartan and Platonic visions of politeia, the reshaping of Greek and Latin vocabularies of politics, the practice of politics in Plato and Proclus, the politics of value in Plato, Aristotle and the Stoics, and the extension of constitutional order to discussions of animals, gods and the cosmos. The volume is dedicated to Professor Malcolm Schofield, one of the world's leading scholars of ancient philosophy. |
Contents
Introduction I | 1 |
Platos politics ofignorance | 7 |
The political art in Platos Republic | 15 |
Plato Thucydides and | 32 |
Platonizing the Spartan politeia in Plutarchs Lycurgus | 57 |
AEtius on Alcmaeon on isonornia | 78 |
Latin philosophy and Roman law | 96 |
The Platonic manufacture ofideology or how to assemble | 119 |
Justice writ large and small in Republic 4 | 212 |
An aesthetic reading ofAristotles Ethics | 231 |
The Stoic sage in the Original Position | 251 |
I4 Aristotle on the natural sociability skills and intelligence | 277 |
Gods and men in Xenophanes | 294 |
from the Euthyphro to the Eudernian | 313 |
The atheist underground | 329 |
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Verity Harte | 139 |
The political skill of Protagoras | 155 |
Proclus and politics | 168 |
IO Relativism in Platos Protagoras | 191 |
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