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Plato's commonwealth is not the City of Zeus or the Kingdom of Heaven . It is a reformed Greek citystate , surrounded by other city - states and by the outer world of barbarians , against which it may have to hold its own .
Plato's commonwealth is not the City of Zeus or the Kingdom of Heaven . It is a reformed Greek citystate , surrounded by other city - states and by the outer world of barbarians , against which it may have to hold its own .
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He tells us that , after the Peloponnesian War , Athenian thought was sharply divided between the few who had an interest in maintaining the city - state , and those who had not . ( The implication that the abolition of the city - state ...
He tells us that , after the Peloponnesian War , Athenian thought was sharply divided between the few who had an interest in maintaining the city - state , and those who had not . ( The implication that the abolition of the city - state ...
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The citystate was a frame within which any type of constitution could subsist : a despotism , an oligarchy , or a democracy . ... if he had been told that he had no interest in maintaining the structure of the city - state .
The citystate was a frame within which any type of constitution could subsist : a despotism , an oligarchy , or a democracy . ... if he had been told that he had no interest in maintaining the structure of the city - state .
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Contents
The Harmony of the Spheres 1930 | 14 |
The Unwritten Philosophy 1935 | 28 |
Platos Commonwealth 1935 | 47 |
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| Title | The Unwritten Philosophy and Other Essays |
| Author | Francis Macdonald Cornford |
| Editor | William Keith Chambers Guthrie |
| Contributor | William Keith Chambers Guthrie |
| Publisher | University Press, 1950 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 28 Jun 2006 |
| Length | 138 pages |
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