Plato's exceptional city, love, and philosopher. (2020)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Nickolas Pappas.
• Authors: Pappas, Nickolas, 1960-
• Contents: Epigraph and Note Introduction Part I: Why Love Must Be Good Kinds of erôs in Plato’s Symposium and Phaedrus 1. Congenital love: Aristophanic erôs in the Symposium 2. Telling good love from bad: erôs in the Phaedrus Part II: How a City is Made Better The polis in Plato’s Republic 3. Speaking of tyrants: Gyges and the Republic ’s city 4. The news of the new city 5. "And then I saw": The myth of Er and the future city Part III: Where to Find the Best Philosophers The philosophos in Plato’s Theaetetus, Sophist, and Statesman 6. "You wise people": The Ion on what sets a philosopher apart 7. Philosophers at last: Theaetetus, Socrates, and the head philosopher 8. The Sophist : The sophist with and without philosophy 9. The Statesman : The little difference that makes philosophy
• Edition: 1st
• Publisher Details: London : Routledge
• Publication Date: 2020
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 184; Love -- Philosophy; Cities and towns -- Philosophy; Philosophers
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781000092882; 9781000092844; 9781000092868; 9781003005193
• Related ISBNs: 9780367424473
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