WHAT DOES TIMOCRATIC MEAN IN ENGLISH?
Definition of timocratic in the English dictionary
The definition of timocratic in the dictionary is of, participating in, or governed by a political unit or system in which possession of property serves as the first requirement for participation in government. Other definition of timocratic is of, participating in, or governed by a political unit or system in which love of honour is deemed the guiding principle of government.
10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «TIMOCRATIC»
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1
The Transformation of Plato's Republic
Women will not, however, contribute to the decline of the oligarchic or democratic
person. The Timocratic Person (548d-550b) Adeimantus now takes Glaucon's
place as Socrates' respondent, after remarking that the timocratic person must be
...
2
A Companion to Plato's Republic
B. Plato says that timocratic men will harbor a secret fondness for wealth (548a).
This is because they will be anxious to have private resources rather than having
everything in common (547b, 416e-417a). It would appear that Plato thinks of ...
3
Plato and the Hero: Courage, Manliness and the Impersonal Good
This might help explain how the thumos' connections with courage in Book 4 can
degenerate into the timocratic man's obsession with manliness in Book 8. 61 The
hybrid appearance of the thumos is starting to seem more explicable.
4
Gender and Rhetoric in Plato's Political Thought
The timocratic man becomes excessively manly in reaction to his mother's
constant harping on his father's apparent unmanliness (549d-el. Instead of
pursuing truth and knowledge of how to live, the timocratic man uses his reason
to pursue ...
Michael Shalom Kochin,
2002
5
Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy
The timocrat in the timocratic city is described as enjoying money and appetitive
pleasures in secret (548 A 5—B 2); and the timocratic individual disdains money
when he is young but comes to love it when he is older (549 A 9—B 4). Socrates'
...
6
Athens Victorious: Democracy in Plato's Republic
Character of the Timocratic Man (548d–49c) In the cases of the other
psychological portraits, a description of the genesis precedes that of the
character. Socrates seems to wish to establish that procedure here, asking: “Who,
then, is the man ...
7
City and Soul in Plato's Republic
It may therefore also seem that the rulers of the militaristic timocracy will be
timocratic characters, though we have seen they are not; and this
misunderstanding may lead to one more general, the view that the city-soul
correspondence is ...
8
Great Books, Bad Arguments: "Republic, Leviathan", and "The ...
I said earlier that most or all of the citizens of a timocratic society can perfectly
well be timocratic in the sense that they are all motivated by a desire for prestige.
But Plato has to say that both the timocratic society and the timocratic ...
9
Political thought in medieval Islam: an introductory outline
You may understand what Plato states concerning the transformation of the ideal
constitution into the timocratic, and that of the excellent into the timocratic man,
from the case of the government of the Arabs in the earliest period. For they used
...
Erwin Isak Jakob Rosenthal
10
The Passionate Statesman: Erõs and Politics in Plutarch's Lives
We find that his description of the training and disposition of Philopoemen (and of
Pelopidas and Marcellus as well) closely follows Plato's description of the
timocratic man in the Republic. Plato, in the words he gives to Socrates, claims
that ...
2 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «TIMOCRATIC»
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Whatever Happened To Democracy In America?
It could reasonably be argued that currently in the United States, our actual system of governance is timocracy. A timocratic government is run solely by property ... «ThyBlackMan, Oct 13»
Misrepresenting the Left: We Are Not Liberals
It cld be noted that among these people there was no organized religion, and thus no science 1, to destroy the idyllic structure of society and their timocratic ... «Dissident Voice, Apr 10»