Greek Political Theory
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Greek Political Theory

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Greek Political Theory

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Much has been written about the interpretation of Plato in the last thirty years. Once interpreted as a revolutionary of the left, and a prophet of Socialism, he has lately been interpreted as a revolutionary of the Right and a forerunner of Fascism. In this book Plato appears as himself – a revolutionary indeed, and even an authoritarian, but a revolutionary of the pure idea of the Good, and an authoritarian of the pure reason, unattached either to the Right or the Left.

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Index
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Absolutism, of Plato’s theory of government, 200–1, 237, 314, 320–33, 362; in Xenophon, 115; in Hegel, 454–5
Academy, 127–9, 228, 342, 411
Action, the life of, compared with the life of contemplation, 135–6, 234–6
Actual, in relation to the ideal, 172 n. 2, 277–81; Plato’s criticism of actual states, 281–300, 330 sq., 337
Agriculture, 20, 49, 191 n. 1, 373–6, 449, 450
Alcibiades, 108, 290
Alexander, 24
Aliens, resident, 178, 373–7
Allegiance, 23–4, 361–2
Amphictyonic Council, 48–9, 308
Analogy, the use of, in political theory, 138–9; of the individual and the State, 187–8; of weaving, 319, 325–6; of the pilot, 321
Anarchism, not advocated by Sophists, 171 n. 1; Plato depicts democracy as home of anarchy, 294–6
Anaxagoras, 60, 74
Anaximander, 58–9, 63
Animals, the analogy of, 83–4, 122, 138, 242, 255–6, 260
Anthropology, applied to political theory, 64, 92, 266
Antiphon, the Orator, 68, 76, 91, 108
Antiphon, the Sophist, 76–9, 91 n. 1, 95–8
Antisthenes, the Cynic, 121–2
Apollo and Delphi, 8–9, 48–9, 65 n. 2, 100, 308
Apology, 110, 126, 140–3
Appetite, 54, 56, 187–9, 199–200, 205, 277, 287–9, 300, 303 n. 2, 415–16
Archelaus, 61, 99 n. 1
Archytas, of Tarentum, 58, 132, 133
Areopagiticus, 117
Argos, 358–9
Aristippus, the Cyrenaic, 124
Aristocracy, 3, 33, 86; Plato’s belief in an aristocracy of intelligence, 237, 243–4, 248, 251; Plato not ‘aristocratic’ in the ordinary sense, 126, 299; Plato’s classification of aristocracy, 334–5
Aristophanes, 20, 82, 87, 109, 242, 253, 275
Aristotle, 5, 6, 7, 11, 14–17, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 31, 32, 40, 42, 50–1, 53 n. 2, 54, 67, go, 92–4, 115, 117, 118, 120, 123...

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Halftitle
  3. Title
  4. Copyright
  5. Contents
  6. Preface
  7. I The Greek Theory of the State
  8. II The Greek State
  9. III Political Thought Before the Sophists
  10. IV The Political Theory of the Sophists
  11. V Socrates and the Minor Socratics
  12. VI Plato and the Platonic Dialogue
  13. VII The Earlier Dialogues of Plato
  14. VIII The Republic and its Theory of Justice
  15. IX The Republic and its Theory of Education
  16. X The Republic and its Theory of Communism
  17. XI Plato and the States of Greece
  18. XII The Politicus
  19. XIII The Laws and its General Theory of the State
  20. XIV The System of Social Relations in the Laws
  21. XV The System of Government in the Laws
  22. XVI The Laws and its Theory of Law
  23. XVII The Theory of Education in the Laws
  24. Appendix The Later History of Plato’s Political Theory
  25. Index