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"The Evil That Men Do Lives After Them" (Sometimes): A Study Of Twentieth Century Analysis Of Plato's Political Theory, Merril Hirsch

Honors Papers

This paper has two purposes. The first is to develop a theory about what approach to the ideas of the past in general, and Plato in particular, will help us the most in learning how to act in politics. I hope to do this by examining and evaluating the ways in which the 20th Century analysts have looked at Plato. The second purpose is to provide an example of the type of analysis I believe to be most useful. I hope to apply my approach not to Plato, but to those who have analyzed Plato, in an effort to make …