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HoP 096 - Dominic O'Meara on Neoplatonism

History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps

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The Neoplatonists' Interest in Political Philosophy

People have thought that the later Neoplatonists were not interested in this side of Plato. I think there's also a philosophical error involved in thinking that making this world less important and taking less interest in this world necessarily involves no interest in politics. In fact I think putting less emphasis in daily life in this world is itself so to speak a political gesture and involves a political theory. There is also a political philosophy or an attitude to this world which suggests that our present life or daily life is not the best life, it does not mean you have no political theory.

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