Saving The City Philosopherkings And Other Classical Paradigms 1st Ed Schofield by Schofield, Malcolm 9780203201817, 9780203287439, 9780415184670, 0203201817, 0203287436, 0415184673 instant download after payment.

BOOK COVER -- HALF-TITLE -- TITLE -- COPYRIGHT -- DEDICATION -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- PUBLICATION DETAILS -- INTRODUCTION -- 1. EUBOULIA IN THE ILIAD -- 2. THE DISAPPEARING PHILOSOPHER-KING -- 3. ZENO OF CITIUM'S ANTI-UTOPIANISM -- 4. PLATO ON THE ECONOMY -- 5. POLITICAL FRIENDSHIP AND THE IDEOLOGY OF RECIPROCITY -- 6. EQUALITY AND HIERARCHY IN ARISTOTLE'S POLITICAL THOUGHT -- 7. IDEOLOGY AND PHILOSOPHY IN ARISTOTLE'S THEORY OF SLAVERY -- 8. SHARING IN THE CONSTITUTION -- 9. MORALITY AND THE LAW The case of Diogenes of Babylon -- 10. CICERO'S DEFINITION OF RES PUBLICA -- NOTES -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX.;Saving the City provides a detailed analysis of the attempts of ancient writers and thinkers, from Homer to Cicero, to construct and recommend political ideals of statesmanship and ruling, of the political community and of how it should be founded in justice. Malcolm Schofield debates to what extent the Greeks and Romans deal with the same issues as modern political thinkers.