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Plato: A Civic Life: Great Lives of the Ancient World

Autor Carol Atack
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 10 ian 2025
A new reading of Plato’s philosophy that reveals it as deeply shaped by his experiences in Athens.
 
Plato is a key figure from the beginnings of Western philosophy, yet the impact of his lived experience on his thought has rarely been explored. Born during a war that would lead to Athens’ decline, Plato lived in turbulent times. Carol Atack explores how Plato’s life in Athens influenced his thought, how he developed the Socratic dialogue into a powerful philosophical tool, and how he used the institutions of Athenian society to create a compelling imaginative world. Accessibly written, this book shows how Plato made Athens the place where diverse ideas were integrated into a new way of approaching the big questions about our lives, then and now.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781789149463
ISBN-10: 1789149460
Pagini: 240
Ilustrații: 27 halftones
Dimensiuni: 138 x 216 x 28 mm
Greutate: 0.43 kg
Editura: REAKTION BOOKS
Colecția Reaktion Books
Seria Great Lives of the Ancient World


Notă biografică

Carol Atack teaches classical Greek and ancient philosophy at the University of Cambridge. She is the author and coauthor of two books, most recently Anachronism and Antiquity.

Cuprins

Introduction
1: A Wartime Childhood
2: Education in a Divided City
3: The Trial and Death of Socrates
4: Plato Outside Athens
5: Establishing an Academy
6: The Academy Flourishes
7: Legacy
Abbreviations
References
Bibliography
Index

Recenzii

"Philosophy is just the beginning in Carol Atack's page-turner. From Plato’s own travels and troubles to the strange life and peculiar death of his teacher Socrates, the struggles of his city at the hands of enemies at home and abroad to the efforts of its citizens to make sense of things in an era of unending crisis, this is a gripping account of Classical Athens under siege told through the sharp eyes and shifting ideas of its most notable son."

"A richly enjoyable and illuminating account of Plato's life, and its social and political contexts. Atack handles the wealth of scholarship with a deft touch: she provides considered support for her interpretations, but never obscures the main, vivid narrative, into which she skilfully weaves a number of Plato's key ideas and arguments."