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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      15 October 2009
      26 January 1995
      ISBN:
      9780511518485
      9780521452939
      9780521041485
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.595kg, 316 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 151 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.466kg, 316 Pages
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    Hegel's often-echoed verdict on the apolitical character of philosophy in the Hellenistic age is challenged in this collection of essays, originally presented at the sixth meeting of the Symposium Hellenisticum. An international team of leading scholars reveals a vigorous intellectual scene of great diversity: analyses of political leadership and the Roman constitution in Aristotelian terms; Cynic repudiation of the polis - but accommodation with its rulers; Stoic and Epicurean theories of justice as the foundation of society; Cicero's moral critique of the traditional political pursuit of glory. The volume as a whole offers a comprehensive guide to the main currents of social and political philosophy in a period of increasing interest to classicists, philosophers and cultural and intellectual historians.

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    "All contributions are worthwhile treatments of substantive questions and deserve attention from scholars and students. Despite the wide range of interest represented here, the volume is surprisingly coherent in showing that hellenistic philosophers were much more interested in the city-state than is sometimes supposed." Religious Studies Review

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