Liberty Democracy & the Tempta (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780881467857)

Based on the 2019 A.V. Elliott Conference on Great Books and Ideas at Mercer University, eleven scholars take up some of the complex questions that emerge when one considers carefully how Plato presents democracy and liberty in the dialogues, particularly in terms of the threats they seem to pose to justice and philosophy. When Athens lost the Peloponnesian War, the Athenian people also lost their democratic constitution for a brief but brutal time. Plato wrote his dialogues and founded his Academy in the early days of Athens's newly restored democratic regime, the regime that executed Socrates. But, he set most of the dialogues in the days leading up to Athens's downfall. Plato presents Socrates as so deeply committed to Athens that he would not consider living anywhere else, even when the Athenians intend to execute him. The authors whose essays are collected in this volume explore these tensions deeply and with great attention to the subtleties and complexities of Plato's texts.

Author: Charlotte C. S. Thomas
ISBN-10: 0881467855
ISBN-13: 9780881467857
Publisher: Mercer University Press
Language: English
Published: 03/01/2021
Pages: 256
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.90lbs
Size: 10.60h x 4.00w x 0.60d