Platonopolis
Platonic Political Philosophy in Late Antiquity
ISBN13: 9780199285532ISBN10: 0199285535
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264 pages
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Oct 2005,
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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.About the Author(s)
Dominic J. O'Meara, Professor of Philosophy, University of Fribourg, Switzerland
