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Platonopolis: Platonic Political Philosophy in Late Antiquity

Platonopolis: Platonic Political Philosophy in Late Antiquity

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Philosophy

ISBN10: 0199285535
ISBN13: 9780199285532
Publisher: Clarendon Press
Published: Nov 3 2005
Pages: 264
Weight: 0.93
Height: 0.60 Width: 6.63 Depth: 9.07
Language: English
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. But 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.

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