Why Plato wrote
"Why Plato Wrote is the first book to be published in the prestigious Blackwell Bristol Lecture Series in Greece, Rome and the Classical Tradition. In this thought-provoking text Danielle Allen eloquently argues that Plato wrote to change Athenian culture and thereby transform Athenian politics...
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| Language: | English |
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Malden, MA
Wiley-Blackwell
c2010
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| Series: | Blackwell Bristol lectures on Greece, Rome and the classical tradition
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Table of Contents:
- Prologuue: Why think about Plato?
- Part I: Why Plato Wrote: Chapter 1: Who was Plato?; Chapter 2: The importance of symbols to human life; Chapter 3: The philosopher as model-maker; Chapter 4: The philosopher as shadow-maker; Chapter 5: What Plato wrote; Chapter 6: How Plato lived.
- Part II: What Plato did: Chapter 7: The case for influence; Chapter 8: Culture war emergent; Chapter 9: Culture war concluded
- Epilogue: and to my colleagues
- Appendix 1: The relationship between paradigms and forms
- Appendix 2: A second tri-partite division of the soul?
- Appendix 3: Miso- compounds in greek literature.
