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Philosophy and political power in antiquity / edited by Cinzia Arruzza and Dmitri Nikulin.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Studies in moral philosophy ; VOLUME 10.Publisher: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2016]Copyright date: �2016Description: 1 online resource (viii, 183 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9789004324626
  • 9004324623
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Philosophy and political power in antiquity.DDC classification:
  • 320.0938 23
LOC classification:
  • B65 .P547 2016eb
Online resources:
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.
Summary: 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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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.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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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