Plato's Thrasymachus and Democratic Thought.

Authors :: Maloy, J. S.
Source :: Conference Papers -- American Political Science Association. 2005 Annual Meeting, Washington DC, p1. 21p.
Publication Year :: 2005
Abstract: This paper examines three aspects of the political thought of Thrasymachus of Chalcedon -- his moral constructivism, critique of craft analogies of politics, and populist satire -- and the role they play in two varieties of democratic theory, Hobbesian radical democracy and Aristotelian democratic constitutionalism. ..PAT.-Conference Proceeding [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]