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Plato’s Gorgias: Speech, Soul and Politics
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English, French
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2024
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In the Gorgias Plato offers a synthesis of what he thinks about the bitter conflict between philosophical and non-philosophical approaches to one’s responsibilities in private and public life. This book contributes to a deeper understanding of this historically and conceptually rich canvas by shedding light on its main topics: speech in its philosophical and non-philosophical forms, psychology in relation to virtuous life, and politics which charges the two former topics with high stakes that call for personal choices.
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David Machek, Ph.D. (2015), University of Toronto, is a lecturer at the University of Berne and a research fellow at Charles University. He has recently published a monograph The Life Worth Living in Ancient Greek and Roman Philosophy (2023).
Vladimír Mikeš, Ph.D. (2009), Charles University in Prague, is a researcher at the Czech Academy of Sciences (Institute of Philosophy). He has published and edited mainly on the Stoics and Plato, including Le paradoxe stoïcien: liberté de l’action déterminée (2016) and Plato’s Cratylus (2022).
Vladimír Mikeš, Ph.D. (2009), Charles University in Prague, is a researcher at the Czech Academy of Sciences (Institute of Philosophy). He has published and edited mainly on the Stoics and Plato, including Le paradoxe stoïcien: liberté de l’action déterminée (2016) and Plato’s Cratylus (2022).
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eBook published on:
June 11, 2024
eBook ISBN:
9789004701878
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Main content:
242
eBook ISBN:
9789004701878
Keywords for this book
rhetoric; politics; justice; philosophical life; populism; elenchos; punishment; psychic conflict; argumentation; speech; virtue
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This book is of interest to specialists and advanced students in ancient philosophy, as well as in modern theories of rhetoric (or argumentation) and politics.
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