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Liberation and Authority - Plato's Gorgias, the First Book of the Republic, and Thucydides (Hardcover)
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Liberation and Authority - Plato's Gorgias, the First Book of the Republic, and Thucydides (Hardcover)
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Liberation and Authority: Plato's Gorgias, the First Book of the
Republic, and Thucydides provides a comparative treatment of
Plato's Gorgias, the first book of the Republic, and Thucydides'
History, arguing that they share similarities not only in the
oft-noted "natural justice" of Callicles, Thrasymachus, and the
Melian Dialogue, but also in a development that runs through the
whole of each work. Nicholas Thorne argues that all three works
give an account of the collapse of the authority of an older
ethical order, out of which a subjective spirit arises that strives
to liberate itself from all limits on its own activity. The
readings of Plato give a new account of each work that shows how
the logic of the arguments is inextricably bound together with the
literary detail, including each work's structure. The account of
Thucydides argues for certain new interpretive concepts, such as
the idea that the whole is greater than the sum of its parts, while
also providing a new look at a number of familiar theses, such as
the three-step structure running through the whole. Taken together,
these works provide complementary reflections on a development
profoundly relevant to our own time.
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