Eco-Republic : : What the Ancients Can Teach Us about Ethics, Virtue, and Sustainable Living / / Melissa Lane.
An ecologically sustainable society cannot be achieved without citizens who possess the virtues and values that will foster it, and who believe that individual actions can indeed make a difference. Eco-Republic draws on ancient Greek thought--and Plato's Republic in particular--to put forward a...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2011] ©2011 |
| Year of Publication: | 2011 |
| Edition: | Course Book |
| Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Part I. INERTIA
- Prologue to Chapter 1: Plato’s Cave
- 1. Introduction: Inertia as Failure of the Political Imagination
- An Unconsciously Platonic Prologue to Chapter 2: Carbon Detox
- 2. From Greed to Glory: Ancient to Modern Ethics – and Back Again?
- Prologue to Chapter 3: Plato’s Ring of Gyges
- 3. Underpinning Inertia: The Idea of Negligibility
- Part II. IMAGINATION
- Prologue to Chapter 4: Post-Platonic Perspectives on the Republic
- 4. Meet Plato’s Republic
- Prologue to Chapter 5: Plato on Why Virtue Matters
- 5. The City and the Soul
- Prologue to Chapter 6: Plato’s Idea of the Good
- 6. The Idea of the Good
- Part III. INITIATIVE
- Prologue to Chapter 7: Revisiting Plato’s Cave
- 7. Initiative and Individuals: A (Partly) Platonic Political Project
- Notes
- Works Cited
- Index