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  • af Ryan K. (Professor of Political Science and Classics Balot
    1.309,95 kr.

    Previous scholars and writers have either celebrated the idealism in Plato's Laws or denounced its totalitarianism. Ryan K. Balot, by contrast, refuses to interpret the dialogue as a political blueprint, whether admirable or misguided. Instead, he shows that it constitutes Plato's greatest philosophical investigation of political life. In this transformative re-appraisal, Balot reveals that Plato's goal was to cultivate a tragic attitude toward our political passions, commitments, and aspirations.

  • - Ideology and Critique in Classical Athens
    af University of Toronto) Balot, Ryan K. (Professor of Political Science and Classics & Professor of Political Science and Classics
    623,95 - 1.412,95 kr.

    In this careful and compelling study, Ryan K. Balot brings together political theory, classical history, and ancient philosophy in order to re-conceive of courage as a specifically democratic virtue.