Politics, Money, and Persuasion : Democracy and Opinion in Plato's Republic
| 1. Verfasser: |
Russon, John.
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| Ort/Verlag/Jahr: |
Bloomington :
Indiana University Press,
2021.
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| Umfang/Format: |
1 online resource (227 pages). |
| Schriftenreihe: |
Studies in Continental Thought Ser.
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| Parallelausgabe: |
Russon, John, Politics, Money, and Persuasion (Print version:) | ISSN: 9780253057686 |
| Online Zugang: |
Available online for registrated users of FID |
Inhaltsangabe:
- Cover
- Tilte Page
- Copyright
- Table of Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Note on Translations and Citations
- Introduction
- I. The Nature of Platonic Writing
- II. The Method of This Work
- III. The Argument
- A. Politics, Money, and Persuasion
- 1 The Problem of Abstraction
- I. The Polis and the Problem of the Guardians
- II. Expertise and Writing
- III. Money
- IV. Technē, Money, and the Commercial Polis
- 2 The Currencies of Power
- I. Timocracy
- II. Oligarchy
- III. Democracy
- B. The Vicissitudes of Opinion
- 3 True Opinion
- I. Socrates and the New Intellectuals
- II. Knowledge and the "Divided Line"
- III. Sophistry
- 4 Persuasion
- I. Persuasion
- II. Virtue
- III. Corruption
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index of Subjects
- Index of Passages.
