TABLE OF CONTENTS

1.EDITOR'S PREFACE 9

2.FREDERIK ARENDS

PLATO' S ANTICIPATION OF POLIS WITHOUT AN OUTSIDE. THER TRANSFORMATION OF THE OUTSIDE-INSIDE PROBLEM IN THE POLITEIA, POLITIKOS, TIMAIOS AND NOMOI 11

3.ALASTAIR BEATTIE

THE ELEATIC UNMOVING VIEW POINT AS FOUNDATION 21

4.LILIA CASTLE

THE RELIGIOUS FOUNDATIONS OF THE IDEAL POLIS 28

5.IRINA DERETIC

ON DEMOCRACY: FROM PLATO TO ARISTOTLE 47

6. DESPINA FRAGOULOPOULOU

THE UNITED NATIONS IN THE AGE OF GLOBALISATION 61

7. BRICE GRUET

COSMOS, CITY AND ENVIROMENT 70

8. GEORGE KOUMAKIS

INJUSTICE AS «UNINTENTIONAL» WITHIN THE CONTEXT OF PLATO' S CITY 80

9. ANNIE LARIVEE

CRITIQUE DU POLITIQUE COMME POURVOYEUR MATERIEL ET THERAPEUTIQUE DE L' åME DANS LE POLITIQUE DE PLATON. LA LE²ON DU MYTHE 91

10. AIKATERINI LEFKA

EUDAIMONIA DANS LA POLIS ET DANS LA KOSMOPOLIS 102

11. CONSTANTINE PROIMOS

HOSPITALITAS AND ÖIËOÎENIA: CONSIDERATIONS ON HEIDEGGER, THE LATINS, THE GREEKS AND THE HISTORY OF ARCHITECTURE 119

12. FRAN²OIS RENAUD

"L'ART POLITIQUE VERITABLE" DANS LE GORGIAS DE PLATON 135

13. ADAM D. ROTH

KAIROS AND HUMAN AGENCY 145

14. STEFAN LORENZ SORGNER

COMMUNITY, SOCIETY AND FRIENDSHIP 153

15. GEORGE TSIANTIS

THE REQUEST FOR DIRECT DEMOCRACY IN THE ERA OF GLOBALISATION:TOWARDS AN ELECTRONIC OR VIRTUAL DEMOCRACY? 165

16. HIDEYA YAMAKAWA

"SOCRATES MAINOMENOS": CYNICS AND STOICS ON POLIS AND COSMOPOLIS 177

17. SHIGERU YONEZAWA

SYSTEMATIZING SOCRATES' PRINCIPLES OF CONDUCT IN THE CONTEXT OF POLIS 204

18. ALBERT VAN DER SCHOOT

RESPECT AND RECOGNITION IN A MULTI-CULTURAL POLIS 220

19. MATTHIAS VORWERK

CITIZENSHIP OF THE HEAVENLY FATHERLAND: A PLATONIST ALTERNATIVE TO THE STOIC CONCEPT OF COSMOPOLITANISM 230

20. RICHARD WALTON

POLIS AND COSMOPOLIS:AN UNRESOLVED PARADOX IN PLATO'S REPUBLIC 241

21. JUDY WUBNIG

POLIS AND COSMOPOLIS: PLATO AND ARISTOTLE 256

22. INDEX NOMINUM 261