ENGLISH

Platonopolis: Platonic Political Philosophy in Late Antiquity

By Dominic J. O'Meara

Book information

Year
2003
ISBN
0199257582, 9780199257584, 9780191531521
Open Library ID
OL22527638M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (1620788 bytes)
Pages
264\262
Topic
History
Scanned
yes
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

Conventional wisdom suggests that the Platonist philosophers of Late Antiquity, from Plotinus (third century) to the sixth-century schools in Athens and Alexandria, neglected the political dimension of their Platonic heritage in their concentration on an otherworldly life. Dominic O'Meara presents a revelatory reappraisal of these thinkers, arguing that their otherworldliness involved rather than excluded political ideas, and he reconstructs for the first time a coherent political philosophy of Late Platonism.

Similar books