Politics, money, and persuasion : democracy and opinion in Plato's Republic /

Politics, money, and persuasion : democracy and opinion in Plato's Republic /

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"In Politics, Money, and Persuasion, distinguished philosopher John Russon offers a new framework for interpreting Plato's The Republic. For Russon, Plato's work is about the distinctive nature of what it is to be a human being and, correspondingly, what is distinctive about the natur...

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Main Author: Russon, John, 1960- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Bloomington, Indiana : Indiana University Press, [2021]
Series:Studies in Continental thought.
Subjects:
Plato. > Republic.
Plato > Political and social views.
Plato.
Republic (Plato)
Political science > Philosophy.
Democracy > Philosophy.
Democracy.
Political and social views.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • The nature of Platonic writing
  • The method of this work
  • The argument
  • Politics, money, and persuasion
  • The problem of abstraction
  • The Polis and the problem of the guardians
  • Expertise and writing
  • Money
  • Technē, money, and the commercial Polis
  • The currencies of power
  • Timocracy
  • Oligarchy
  • Democracy
  • The vicissitudes of opinion
  • True opinion
  • Socrates and the new intellectuals
  • Knowledge and the "divided line"
  • Sophistry
  • Persuasion
  • Persuasion
  • Virtue
  • Corruption.

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