160 Pages
by
Routledge
158 Pages
by
Routledge
160 Pages
by
Routledge
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This book explores the life-history of the individual within the context of Plato’s social thought. The author examines Plato’s treatment of the principal crises in an individual life - birth, educational selection, sex, the individual’s contract with society, old age, death, and life after death – and provides an unprecedented analysis of Plato’s theory of genetics as it appears in the... Read more
1. The Theme of the Individual 2. Beginnings 3. A Hesitant Eugenic 4. Magic, Thinking and Selection by Merit 5. Man, Woman, and Eros 6. The Individual’s Contract 7. Old Age, Thanatos, and Last Things 8. Facing the Ideal Society. Citations of Plato’s Works. Index.
Biography
David Rankin
