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Innovative readings and creative reinterpretations of significant works in the field of ancient philosophy.
In classical Greece, the word politeia in its largest sense meant the citizens' engagement with the shared project that is the lived life of their polis, city, civic society. Ancient philosophers, poets, historians, and orators constantly reflected on what this shared project should be and how citizens could participate in it. The chapters in this collection, inspired by the work of Anthony Preus, examine some of the products of their reflections, both the written works themselves and the variety of comparative contexts into which they can be put, from the Greeks' neighboring Asian polities to contemporary philosophical engagements with similar issues. The essays in Politeia hope to inspire readers to think about their own lives in conversation with the lives of the many communities to which we belongâto not only demonstrate the idea of politeia but to bring to life politeia's connection of the individual to the collective, something that seems to be of central importance in a world of division and to be the beating heart of the discipline of philosophy.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Introduction: Politeia: New Readings in the History of Philosophy
- Plato on Laughing at People
- Platoâs Dialogues: Educating the Mind for 2400 Years
- Different Ways of Being Different, Different Ways Not to Be: Parmenides and the Critical Relativism of Alain Locke
- The Art of Training the Black Horse: The âWar within the Soulâ and Socratesâ Palinode
- âRiches without Envyâ: Picturing the Words of Philebus 40a10
- Karl Marx and the Riddle of the Nicomachean Ethics 5.5
- The Tragedy of Natural Philosophy
- âTurn the Brightness Outwardâ: Muthos and Paideia in Pindar and Plato
- Donât Be a Drag, Just Be a Queen
- Plato on Hate and the Limits of Morality
- Neither an âExact Graspâ Nor a âComplete Falsehoodâ: The Truth Status and Rhetorical Function of the Tripartite Model of City and Soul in the Republic
- The Unity of Being
- The Double Meaning of Strife in Hesiod
- The Myth of Er and Pamphyliaâs Polyglossia
- Between Numen and Nous: Bachelard on the Awakening of Consciousness
- Justice, Accountability, and Its Limits in Platoâs Republic I
- Beauty Dethroned? Platoâs Symposiasts on What We Love
- Forms as Causes in On Coming to Be and Passing Away II.9
- Contributors
- Name Index
- Back Cover