Plato and the mythic tradition in political thought
Plato's use of myths-the Myth of Metals, the Myth of Er-sits uneasily with his canonical reputation as the inventor of rational philosophy. Since the Enlightenment, interpreters like Hegel have sought to resolve this tension by treating Plato's myths as mere regrettable embellishments, irr...
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Cambridge, Massachusetts :
The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
2020
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Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction: Plato's legacy and the problem of myth in political thought
- Part I. Political and philosophical boundaries: Nature and myth in Plato's Republic
- The utopian founding myths of More and Bacon
- An Enlightenment fable: Leibniz and the boundaries of reason
- Part II. Myth and modernity: The new mythology of German idealism
- The demon of the city: Cassirer on myth and Plato
