Abstract
Acknowledgements vii Part I INERTIA 1 Prologue to Chapter 1: Plato's Cave 3 Chapter 1: Introduction: Inertia as Failure of the Political Imagination 7 An Unconsciously Platonic Prologue to Chapter 2: Carbon Detox 27 Chapter 2:From Greed to Glory: Ancient to Modern Ethics - and Back Again? 29 Prologue to Chapter 3: Plato's Ring of Gyges 47 Chapter 3: Underpinning Inertia: The Idea of Negligibility 51 Part II IMAGINATION 77 Prologue to Chapter 4: Post-Platonic Perspectives on the Republic 79 Chapter 4: Meet Plato's Republic 83 Prologue to Chapter 5: Plato on Why Virtue Matters 99 Chapter 5: The City and the Soul 101 Prologue to Chapter 6: Plato's Idea of the Good 127 Chapter 6: The Idea of the Good 133 Part III INITIATIVE 157 Prologue to Chapter 7: Revisiting Plato's Cave 159 Chapter 7: Initiative and Individuals: A (Partly) Platonic Political Project 163 Notes 187 Works Cited 219 Index 235
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