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  title info:
    title: Cosmology and politics in Plato's later works
  name:
    name part: O'Meara, Dominic J.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: enk
    date issued: 2017
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xii, 157 pages ; 24 cm
  abstract: Knowledge of the structure of the cosmos, Plato suggests, is important in organizing a human community which aims at happiness. This book investigates this theme in Plato's later works, the Timaeus, Statesman, and Laws. Dominic J. O'Meara proposes fresh readings of these texts, starting from the religious festivals and technical and artistic skills in the context of which Plato elaborates his cosmological and political theories, for example the Greek architect's use of models as applied by Plato in describing the making of the world. O'Meara gives an account of the model of which Plato's world is an image; of the mathematics used in producing the world; and of the relation between the cosmic model and the political science and legislation involved in designing a model state in the Laws. Non-specialist scholars and students will be able to access and profit from the book.
  note: Dominic J. O'Meara, Université de Fribourg, Switzerland.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Plato
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Plato
  subject:
    topic: Cosmology
  subject:
    topic: Political science
  subject:
    topic: Cosmology
  subject:
    topic: Political science
  classification: B395 .O44 2017
  classification: 184
  identifier: 9781107183278
  identifier: 1107183278
  identifier: 2017012149
  identifier: https://stanford.idm.oclc.org/login
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  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 170328
    record change date: 20171215133409.0
    record identifier: in00003928376
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng