1st Edition

Plato Today (RLE: Plato)

By R Crossman Copyright 2013
216 Pages
by Routledge

216 Pages
by Routledge

216 Pages
by Routledge

Plato was born around 2,500 years ago. He lived in a small city-state in Greece and busied himself with the problems of his fellow Greeks, a people living in scattered cities around the Mediterranean and the Black Sea. In all he tried to do for the Greeks he failed. Why, then, should people in the modern world bother to read what he had to say? Does it make sense to go to a Greek thinker for... Read more

Introduction 1. Plato and the Modern World 2. The Historical Background 3. Socrates 4. Plato 5. Plato Looks at British Democracy 6. Plato Looks at British Education 7. Plato Looks at the Family 8. Plato Looks at Communism 9. Plato Looks at Fascism 10. Why Plato Failed 11. The Modern Plato Once More. Epilogue. Index

Biography

Crossman, R