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Maximilien Robespierre was one of the most important political thinkers of the French Revolution. This volume offers the first scholarly edition in English... Læs mere
Though it is thought that for Plato in the Republic justice is internal, a matter of relations among the parts of a city or soul, this book contends that in Book 1, justice – both political and personal – is external and other-regarding.
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