Eco-Republic What the Ancients Can Teach Us About Ethics, Virtue, and Sustainable Living

By:

Lane, Melissa

Contributor(s):

Lane, Melissa

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Princeton Princeton University Press 2012Description: 245pISBN:

9780691151243

DDC classification:

N44 L240

Partial contents:

Part 1 Inertia .....1 Prologue to chapter 1: Plato`s cave .....3 1 Introduction: Inertia as failure of the political imagination .....7 An unconsciously platonic prologue to chapter 2: Carbon detox .....27 2 From greed to glory: Ancient to modern ethics - and back again .....29 Pologue to chapter 3: Plato`s ring of gyges .....47 3 Underpinning intertia: The idea of negligibility ....51 Part II Imagination .....77 Prologue to chapter 4: Post-platonic perspectives on the republic .....79 4 Meet plato`s republic .....83 Prologue to chapter 5: Plato on why virtue matters ....99 5 The city and the soul ....101 Prologue to chapter 6: Plato`s idea of the good 6 The idea of the good ....133 Part III Initative .....157 Prologue to chapter 7: Revisiting plato`s cave ....159 7 Initiative and individuals: A (Partly) platonic political project ....163

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Books	DVK Library Stack -> Second Floor -> N	N44 L240 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		11067110

includes index and biblioraphy

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