A Wolf in the City: Tyranny and the Tyrant in Plato’s Republic Cinzia Arruzza

A Wolf in the City: Tyranny and the Tyrant in Plato’s Republic Cinzia Arruzza – Ebook Instant Download/Delivery ISBN(s): 9780190678852,0190678852, 9780190678876, 0190678879

Product details:
• ISBN 10: 0190678879
• ISBN 13: 9780190678876
• Author: Cinzia Arruzza

In A Wolf in the City, Arruzza argues that Plato’s critique of tyranny intervenes in an ancient debate concerning the sources of the crisis of Athenian democracy and the relation between political leaders and demos in the last decades of the fifth century BCE. Arruzza shows that Plato’s critique of tyranny should not be taken as veiled criticism of the Syracusan tyrannical regime, but rather of Athenian democracy. In parsing Plato’s discussion of the soul of the tyrant, Arruzza will also offer new and innovative insights into his moral psychology, addressing much-debated problems such as the nature of eros and of the spirited part of the soul, the unity or disunity of the soul, and the relation between the non-rational parts of the soul and reason.

Table contents:

1. Tyranny in Athens: Aversion, Fascination, and Fear

2. Plato’s Tyrant and the Crisis of Athenian Democracy

3. Tyrannical Democracy

Part II The Tyrant’s Soul

4. The Tyranny of Eros and the Tyrannical Man’s Appetites

5. The Lion and the Wolf: The Tyrant’s Spirit

6. Clever Villains: The Tyrant’s Reason

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