Plato S Democratic Entanglements

Author : S. Sara Monoson
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2013-08-18
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780691158587

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Plato's Democratic Entanglements by S. Sara Monoson Pdf

In this book, Sara Monoson challenges the longstanding and widely held view that Plato is a virulent opponent of all things democratic. She does not, however, offer in its place the equally mistaken idea that he is somehow a partisan of democracy. Instead, she argues that we should attend more closely to Plato's suggestion that democracy is horrifying and exciting, and she seeks to explain why he found it morally and politically intriguing. Monoson focuses on Plato's engagement with democracy as he knew it: a cluster of cultural practices that reach into private and public life, as well as a set of governing institutions. She proposes that while Plato charts tensions between the claims of democratic legitimacy and philosophical truth, he also exhibits a striking attraction to four practices central to Athenian democratic politics: intense antityrantism, frank speaking, public funeral oratory, and theater-going. By juxtaposing detailed examination of these aspects of Athenian democracy with analysis of the figurative language, dramatic structure, and arguments of the dialogues, she shows that Plato systematically links democratic ideals and activities to philosophic labor. Monoson finds that Plato's political thought exposes intimate connections between Athenian democratic politics and the practice of philosophy. Situating Plato's political thought in the context of the Athenian democratic imaginary, Monoson develops a new, textured way of thinking of the relationship between Plato's thought and the politics of his city.

Author : Gerald M. Mara
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1997-02-27
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781438411873

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Socrates' Discursive Democracy by Gerald M. Mara Pdf

Focusing on the speeches and actions of the Platonic Socrates, this book argues that Plato's political philosophy is a crucial source for reflection on the hazards and possibilities of democratic politics.

Author : Rebecca Kingston,Leonard Ferry
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2008-05-20
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780774858182

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Bringing the Passions Back In by Rebecca Kingston,Leonard Ferry Pdf

The rationalist ideal has been met with cynicism in progressive circles for undermining the role of emotion and passion in the public realm. By exploring the social and political implications of the emotions in the history of ideas, contributors examine new paradigms for liberalism and offer new appreciations of the potential for passion in political philosophy and practice. Bringing the Passions Back In draws upon the history of political theory to shed light on the place of emotions in politics; it illustrates how sophisticated thinking about the relationship between reason and passion can inform contemporary democratic political theory.

Author : Greg Recco
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780739123270

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Athens Victorious by Greg Recco Pdf

Plato's Republic is typically thought to recommend a form of government that, from our current perspective, seems perniciously totalitarian. Athens Victorious demonstrates that Plato intended quite the opposite: to demonstrate the superiorityof a democratic constitution. Greg Recco provides a brilliant rereading of Book Eight. Often considered an anticlimax, Book Eight seems to be a mere catalogue of mistakes but is in fact one of Plato's most neglected literary creations: a mythic or epic restaging of the Peloponnesian War that pitted Sparta's militaristic oligarchy against Athens' democracy. In Plato's reenactment, Athens wins. Recco argues that the values identified in Book Eight as distinctively democratic were the very ones that served as the unannounced touchstones of moral and political judgment throughout the dialogue.Athens Victorious is an important reinterpretation ofThe Republic. It is an excellent resource for students and scholars of Classical Studies, Philosophy, and Political Theory.

Author : James L. Kastely
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2015-08-25
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780226278629

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The Rhetoric of Plato's Republic by James L. Kastely Pdf

J. Kastely makes the case for Plato’s Republic as a self-consciously rhetorical work exploring a fundamental problem for philosophy. He argues that the Republic is a mimetic poem responding to a discursive crisis within democracy, namely, the absence of a genuinely persuasive defense of justice. Understanding the Republic as a work that raises persuasion as a key problem for philosophy requires us to rethink Plato’s understanding of the relationship between philosophy and rhetoric. This is a major and provocative reconsideration of the relationship of philosophy and rhetoric and raises issues central to a wide range of scholarly fields, from political theory to psychology to aesthetics.

Author : R. H. S. Crossman
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2012-09-10
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780415624008

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Plato Today by R. H. S. Crossman Pdf

Annotation The problems facing Plato's world bear striking parallels to ours today, the author maintains, so who better to turn to than Plato, the most objective and most ruthless observer of the failures of Greek society. This text provides both an informed introduction to Greek ideas and an original and controversial view of Plato himself.

Author : Plato
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 137 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0892664983

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The Conflict of the Aristocratic and of Democratic Theories in Plato's Conception of the Political Society by Plato Pdf

Author : Teresa Hoskyns
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2014-07-17
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781317916222

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The Empty Place by Teresa Hoskyns Pdf

In The Empty Place: Democracy and Public Space Teresa Hoskyns explores the relationship of public space to democracy by relating different theories of democracy in political philosophy to spatial theory and spatial and political practice. Establishing the theoretical basis for the study of public space, Hoskyns examines the rise of representative democracy and investigates contemporary theories for the future of democracy, focusing on the Chantal Mouffe's agonistic model and the civil society model of Jürgen Habermas. She argues that these models of participatory democracy can co-exist and are necessarily spatial. The book then provides diverse perspectives on how the role of physical public space is articulated through three modes of participatory spatial practice. The first focuses on issues of participation in architectural practice through a set of projects exploring the ‘open spaces’ of a postwar housing estate in Euston. The second examines the role of space in the construction of democratic identity through a feminist architecture/art collective, producing space through writing, performance and events. The third explores participatory political democratic practice through social forums at global, European and city levels. Hoskyns concludes that participatory democracy requires a conception of public space as the empty place, allowing different models and practices of democracy to co-exist.

Author : Vivasvan Soni
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 560 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Enlightenment
ISBN : 0801448174

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Mourning Happiness by Vivasvan Soni Pdf

"A work of rare scope and power that grapples with the big questions: Is happiness the proper end of life, as the Greeks conceived it to be, or is life, as it appears since the early English novel, an endless trial?"--Adam Potkay

Author : Rebecca Lemoine
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : History
ISBN : 9780190936983

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Plato's Caves by Rebecca Lemoine Pdf

Months before the 2016 United States presidential election, universities across the country began reporting the appearance of white nationalist flyers featuring slogans like "Let's Become Great Again" and "Protect Your Heritage" against the backdrop of white marble statues depicting figures such as Apollo and Hercules. Groups like Identity Evropa (which sponsored the flyers) oppose cultural diversity and quote classical thinkers such as Plato in support of their anti-immigration views. The traditional scholarly narrative of cultural diversity in classical Greek political thought often reinforces the perception of ancient thinkers as xenophobic, and this is particularly the case with interpretations of Plato. While scholars who study Plato reject the wholesale0dismissal of his work, the vast majority tend to admit that his portrayal of foreigners is unsettling. From student protests over the teaching of canonical texts such as Plato's Republic to the use of images of classical Greek statues in white supremacist propaganda, the world of the ancient Greeks is deeply implicated in a heated contemporary debate about identity and diversity. 0In Plato's Caves, Rebecca LeMoine defends the bold thesis that Plato was a friend of cultural diversity, contrary to many contemporary perceptions. LeMoine shows that, across Plato's dialogues, foreigners play a role similar to that of Socrates: liberating citizens from intellectual bondage. Through close readings of four Platonic dialogues-Republic, Menexenus, Laws, and Phaedrus-LeMoine recovers Plato's unique insight into the promise, and risk, of cross-cultural engagement. Like the Socratic "gadfly" who stings the "horse" of Athens into wakefulness, foreigners can provoke citizens to self-reflection by exposing contradictions and confronting them with alternative ways of life.

Author : Jeff Jackson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2018-10-11
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781108428576

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Equality Beyond Debate by Jeff Jackson Pdf

Links democracy with the process of overcoming severe social inequality, rather than with ideal forms of political debate.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 467 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2024-04-08
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004685055

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Looking In, Looking Out: Jews and Non-Jews in Mutual Contemplation by Anonim Pdf

Martin Goodman’s forty years of scholarship in Roman history and ancient Judaism demonstrates how each discipline illuminates the other: Jewish history makes best sense in a broader Greco-Roman context; Roman history has much to learn from Jewish sources and evidence. In this volume, Martin’s colleagues and students follow his example by examining Jews and non-Jews in mutual contemplation. Part 1 explores Jews’ views of inter-communal stasis, the causes of the Bar Kochba revolt, tales of Herodian intrigue, and the meaning of “Israel.” Part 2 investigates Jews depiction of outsiders: Moabites, Greeks, Arabs, and Roman authorities. Part 3 explores early Christians’ (Luke, Jerome, Rufinus, Syriac poetry, Pionius, ordinary individuals) views of Jews and use of Jewish sources, and Josephus’s relevance for girls in 19th century Britain.

Author : William H. F. Altman
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 513 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2012-02-16
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780739171394

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Plato the Teacher by William H. F. Altman Pdf

In this unique and important book, William Altman shines a light on the pedagogical technique of the playful Plato, especially his ability to create living discourses that directly address the student. Reviving an ancient concern with reconstructing the order in which Plato intended his dialogues to be taught as opposed to determining the order in which he wrote them, Altman breaks with traditional methods by reading Plato’s dialogues as a multiplex but coherent curriculum in which the Allegory of the Cave occupies the central place. His reading of Plato's Republic challenges the true philosopher to choose the life of justice exemplified by Socrates and Cicero by going back down into the Cave of political life for the sake of the greater Good.

Author : James L. Kastely
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2022-11-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780226822105

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Loving the World Appropriately by James L. Kastely Pdf

"What is persuasion? For some, it should be thought of primarily as an alternative to violence. For others, persuasion is less an ethical practice and more a neutral instrumentality-a valued source of soft power. Whichever position seems more appealing, they both rest on a fundamental belief: persuasion is a power residing in an individual speaker who acts on an audience. But what if we question this basic understanding of persuasion? What if we shift the focus and ask a different-and in some ways more fundamental-question: why does an audience stand in need of persuasion? This is the question that animates Loving the World Appropriately. In turning the question around, James Kastely delivers an original and provocative contribution to the history of rhetoric and philosophy, one that moves persuasion away from being a matter of effective communication and recasts it as an important philosophical concern tied up with fundamental notions of human subjectivity. Ultimately, Kastely insists, the purpose of persuasion is to enable us to love the world appropriately"--

Author : Thanassis Samaras
Publisher : Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : UOM:39015055099140

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Plato on Democracy by Thanassis Samaras Pdf

Revising his 1996 doctoral dissertation for the University of Warwick, though not departing radically from his original contention, Samaras argues that Plato's political thinking develops along a continuous line. He shows how some fundamental principles inform his thinking from beginning to end, and no abrupt breaks occur from one dialogue to the next or within any dialogue, but that the continuity does not mean his political though remains essentially unchanged. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR