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Plato's Utopia Recast

His Later Ethics and Politics

  • Hardback
  • 656 pages
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press
  • 15.6 x 23.4 x 3.6 cm

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For scholars and enthusiasts of Plato's philosophy

Clarifies Plato's evolving views on ethics and politics

You will gain new insights into Plato's theories

Plato's Utopia Recast offers a fresh perspective on Plato's later ethics and politics.

Plato's Utopia Recast is an illuminating reappraisal of Plato's later works, which reveals radical changes in his ethical and political theory. Christopher Bobonich argues that in these works Plato both rethinks and revises important positions which he held in his better-known earlier works such as the Republic and the Phaedo. Bobonich analyses Plato's shift from a deeply pessimistic view of non-philosophers in the Republic, where he held that only philosophers were capable of virtue and happiness, to his far more optimistic position in the Laws, where he holds that the constitution and laws of his ideal city of Magnesia would allow all citizens to achieve a truly good life. Bobonich sheds light on how this and other highly significant changes in Plato's views are grounded in changes in his psychology and epistemology. This book will change our understanding of Plato. His controversial moral and political theory, so influential in Western thought, will henceforth be seen in a new light.
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  • Title

    Plato\'s Utopia Recast

  • Author

    Christopher Bobonich

  • Book Format

    Hardback

  • Publisher

    Oxford University Press

  • Published

    July 2002

  • Weight

    1090g

  • Page Count

    656

  • Dimensions

    15.6 x 23.4 x 3.6 cm

  • ISBN

    9780199251438

  • ISBN-10

    0199251436

  • Eden Code

    4563598

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