The Foundations of Western Civilization

The Failure of the Polis and the Rise of Alexander (1x14)

Udgivelsesdato: Jan 01, 2002

Why couldn't thinkers as brilliant as Plato and Aristotle conceive of a non-imaginary alternative to the polis, and why does the career of one of Aristotle's students mean that in the end, such a shortcoming may not have mattered anyway?