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Title Philosophy and political power in antiquity / edited by Cinzia Arruzza and Dmitri Nikulin.

Publication Info. Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2016]
©2016

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Description 1 online resource (viii, 183 pages).
Physical Medium polychrome
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Series Studies in moral philosophy, 2211-2014 ; VOLUME 10
Studies in moral philosophy ; VOLUME 10.
Summary Edited by Cinzia Arruzza and Dmitri Nikulin, Philosophy and Political Power in Antiquity is a collection of essays examining reflections by ancient philosophers on the implicit tension between political activity and the philosophical life from a variety of critical perspectives.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents The power of speech: the influence of the Sophists on Greek politics / Giovanni Giorgini -- Philosophical dogs and tyrannical wolves in Plato's Republic / Cinzia Arruzza -- What's the good of knowing the forms? / Chris Bobonich -- Individual competence and collective deliberation in Aristotle's Politics / Christoph Horn -- Diogenes the comic, or how to tell the truth in the face of a tyrant / Dmitri Nikulin -- Dio of Prusa and the Roman Stoics on how to speak the truth to oneself and to power -- Stoic utopia reconsidered: Pyrrhonism, ethics, and politics -- Plato's tyrant in neoplatonic philosophy / Dominic J. O'Meara.
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Subject Political science -- Philosophy.
Political science -- Philosophy.
Philosophy, Ancient.
Philosophy, Ancient.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author Arruzza, Cinzia, editor.
Nikulin, D. V. (Dmitriĭ Vladimirovich), editor.
Other Form: Print version: Philosophy and political power in antiquity. Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2016] 9789004324619 (DLC) 2016022059 (OCoLC)950084070
ISBN 9789004324626 (electronic book)
9004324623 (electronic book)
9789004324619 (hardback ; alkaline paper)
9004324615 (hardback ; alkaline paper)
Standard No. 40026356177