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Plato's Utopia Recast is an illuminating reappraisal of Plato's later works, which reveals radical changes in his ethical and political theory. Christopher Bobonich argues that in these works Plato both rethinks and revises important positions which he held in his better-known earlier works such as the Republic and the Phaedo. Bobonich analyses Plato's shift from a deeply pessimistic view of non-philosophers in the Republic, where he held that only philosophers were capable of virtue and happine
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- Author
- Christopher Bobonich
- Publisher
- Clarendon Press ; Oxford University Press
- Published
- 2002
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780199274109
- Category
- philosophy
- Subjects
- History, Philosophy, Humanities
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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