Plato is the best known and most widely studied of all the ancient Greek philosophers. Malcolm Schofield, a leading scholar of ancient philosophy, offers a lucid and accessible guide to Plato's political thought, enormously influential and much discussed in the modern world as well as the ancient. Schofield discusses Plato's ideas on education, democracy and its shortcomings, the role of knowledge in government, utopia and the idea of community, money and its grip on the psyche, and ideological uses of religion.
- ISBN10 019924961X
- ISBN13 9780199249619
- Publish Date 31 August 2006
- Publish Status Active
- Out of Print 17 March 2021
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Oxford University Press
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 394
- Language English