Platonopolis : Platonic Political Philosophy in Late Antiquity
Dominic J. O'Meara
Bok Engelsk 2003 · Electronic books.
| Utgitt | Oxford : : Clarendon Press, , 2003.
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| Omfang | 1 online resource (262 p.)
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| Opplysninger | Description based upon print version of record.. - Contents; Abbreviations; INTRODUCTION; PART I. NEOPLATONIC POLITICAL THEORY RECONSTRUCTED: THE DIVINIZATION OF SOUL; PART II. NEOPLATONIC POLITICAL THEORY RECONSTRUCTED: THE DIVINIZATION OF THE STATE; PART III. PLATONOPOLIS IN CHRISTIANITY AND ISLAM; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index of Names and Subjects; Index of Passages. - Conventional wisdom suggests that the Platonist philosophers of Late Antiquity, from Plotinus (third century) to the sixth-century schools in Athens and Alexandria, neglected the political dimension of their Platonic heritage in their concentration on an otherworldly life. Dominic O'Meara presents a revelatory reappraisal of these thinkers, arguing that their otherworldliness involved rather than excluded political ideas, and he proposes for the first time a reconstruction of theirpolitical philosophy, their conception of the function, structure, and contents of political science, and its rela
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| ISBN | 0199257582
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